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REV.  WALTER   H.   CLARK 


KANSAS  CITY  : 

Tiernan-Dart  Printing  Company 

1910 


CONTENTS 


Page 
Introductory 1 

History,  in  chronological  order,  by  periods  : 

1826-1840 5 

1841 14 

1842—1843 21 

1844—1848 33 

1849—1854 42 

1855—1860 51 

1861-1866 67 

1867—1874 78 

1875—1885 110 

1886—1907 121 

Extinct  and  Non-reporting  Churches 133 

Early  Pioneers 158 

German  Work 168 

Platte  Presbytery  (U.  S.  A.) 169 

Educational  Work 178 

Ministerial  Register 189 

Index— General 222 

Churches 223 

Ruling  Elders 225 

"        Ministers 234 

"       Personal 240 


FOREWORD 


Several  years  ago  Platte  Presbytery  requested  the 
compiler,  as  Committee  on  Presbyterial  History  and 
Stated  Clerk,  to  prepare  a  History  of  the  Presbytery, 
and  ultimately  it  appropriated  two  hundred  dollars 
towards  the  expensie.  The  gathering  of  material  was 
begun  at  once,  and  extra  copies  of  the  first  ''form," 
which  was  printed  about  two  years  ago,  were  largely 
distributed  to  aid  in  the  work.  Repeated  periods  of 
ill  health  have  delayed  the  work,  with  the  advantage  of 
making  it  more  complete.  During  this  delay,  the  scope 
of  the  history  has  been  enlarged  to  include  all  Presby- 
terian work  in  this  section,  and  up  to  date,  so  that 
the  secondary  title  of  the  book  most  fully  and  cor- 
rectly gives  its  character. 

Most  of  the  material  has  been  obtained  by  a  very 
extensive  correspondence.  No  pains  have  been  spared 
to  secure  accuracy  in  the  statements.  One  error  oc- 
curs on  the  thirteenth  page,  in  the  fourth  line,  where 
' '  sixteen ' '  should  be  "  nine. ' '  Names,  figures  and  facts 
easily  obtainable  from  published  Minutes  have  not  been 


largely  used,   but   chiefly   such   as   are  not  ordinarily 
accessible. 

This  work  seeks  to  cultivate,  in  the  entire  member- 
ship of  our  churches,  an  intelligent  interest  in  the  his- 
tory and  prosperity  of  their  own  church,  and  thus  in 
cite  them  to  a  fuller  consecration  and  a  more  loyal 
devotion  to  the  Divine  ]\Iaster  in  the  great  work  of 
bringing  every  human  heart  to  know  experimentally 
the  power  of  His  great  salvation.  He  recognizes  and 
holds  dear  the  humble  worker  equally  with  those  set 
apart  to  lead  or  to  rule. 

This  work,  carried  forward  only  as  the  time  and 
strength  not  required  by  regular  duties  have  per- 
mitted, has  been,  to  the  compiler,  a  labor  of  love. 
That  it  may  be  useful  is  the  only  reward  he  seeks. 

Parkville,  Mo.,  December,  1909. 


HISTORY 

OF 

PLATTE  PRESBYTERY, 


INTRODUCTORY. 

This  little  book  aims  to  give  not  only  some  account 
of  Platte  Presbytery  since  its  organization  in  1870, 
but  also  and  more  especially  the  ''beginnings  of  Pres- 
byterianism"  in  connection  with  the  Presbyteries  of 
upper  Missouri,  Lexington,  Barnett  and  PlattcA,  previ- 
ous to  that  date,  in  the  territory  embraced  in  the  bounds 
of  that  Presbytery.  What  that  territory  is  will  appear 
from  the  following  extract  from  a  brief  history  of 
Platte  Presbytery,  by  Rev.  Dr.  E.  B.  Sherwood,  pub- 
lished in  1888: 

PLATTE  PRESBYTERY  took  its  name  from  the 
Platte  river  which  rises  in  the  State  of  Iowa  and 
crosses  into  Missouri  in  the  county  of  Nodaway,  and 
runs  through  Nodaway,  Andrew,  Buchanan  and 
Platte  into  the  Missouri  river.  This  Presbytery  in- 
cludes the  19  northwestern  counties  of  the  State  of 
Missouri,  and  is  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  State  of 
Iowa,  on  the  west  by  the  states  of  Nebraska  and 
Kansas,  on  the  south  by  the  Missouri  river  to  where 
the  Grand  river  empties  into  the  Missouri,  thence 
North  on  the  east  boundary  of  the  counties  of  Car- 
roll, Livingston,  Grundy  and  Mercer  to  the  Iowa  line. 
This  Presbytery  is  a  child  of  the  union  of  the  Old 
and  New  School  divisions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 
The  United  General  Assembly  that  met  in  Philadel- 
phia in  May  1870  ordered  the  United  Synod  of  Mis- 
souri to  meet  in  St.  Louis  on  July  7th,  1870,  and  fix 


2  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

the  boundaries  of  the  Presbyteries  and  the  names 
thereof.  The  Synod  of  Missouri  did  then  and  there 
assemble  and  passed  the  folloAving  order: 

''The  Presbytery  of  Platte  is  hereby  to  consist  of 
the  ministers  and  churches  in  the  counties  of  Mercer, 
Harrison,  Worth,  Nodaway,  Atchison,  Holt,  Andrew, 
Gentry,  DeKalb,  Daviess,  Grundy,  Livingston,  Cald- 
well, Clinton,  Buchanan,  Platte,  Clay,  Ray  and 
Carroll." 

The  Presbytery  of  Upper  Missouri,  as  originally 
constituted,  covered  this  territory  and  no  more;  while 
the  Presbytery  of  Lexington  included  also  several 
counties  south  of  the  Missouri.  The  Cumberland 
Presbyteries  of  Barnett  and  Platte  also  covered  this 
territory,  wholly  or  in  part,  as  will  be  noted  later. 

To  avoid  possible  confusion,  a  brief  notice  will  here 
be  given  of  an  earlier  Platte  Presbytery,  obtained  from 
a  valuable  manuscript  "History  of  the  Presbytery  of 
Upper  Missouri,"  written  in  1900  by  its  Stated  Clerk, 
Rev.  Oscar  W.  Gauss. 

At  its  fall  meeting  in  1857,  the  newly-erected  Synod 
of  Upper  Missouri  set  off  the  six  northwestern 
counties  of  this  state,  Andrew,  Atchison,  Buchanan, 
Holt,  Nodaway  and  Platte  (the  "Platte  Purchase")  as 
Platte  Presbytery.  It  existed  till  1864  when  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  (0.  S.)  re-attached  it  to  the  Presbytery 
of  Upper  Missouri,  and  then  re-attached  that  to  the 
Synod  of  Missouri,  the  Synod  of  Upper  ]\Iissouri  hav- 
ing become  disintegrated  by  the  loss  of  a  quorum  of 
Presbyteries. 

As  it  may  be  satisfactory  to  have  a  glimpse  of  the 
earliest  general  history  of  Presbyterianism  in  this  state, 
the  following  abstract,  taken  from  Rev.  Dr.  John  B. 
Hill's  history  of  the  Presbvtery  of  Kansas  City  (p.p. 
12,  13)  is  given. 

By  order  of  the  Synod  of  Tennessee,  "the  Presby- 
tery of  Missouri  was  duly  constituted  at  St.  Louis  on 
Thursday,  December  18,  1817,  consisting  of  Rev. 
Timothy  Flint,  Rev.  John  Matthews,  Rev.  Salmon 
Giddings,  Rev.  Thomas  Donnell  and  elders  from  the 
Concord,  Bonhomme,  St.  Louis  and  Buffalo  churches." 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  3 

This  Presbytery  covered  not  only  Missouri,  but  also 
the  western  two-thirds  of  Illinois.  In  October,  1828, 
it  was  transferred  by  the  General  Assembly  to  the  care 
of  the  Synod  of  Indiana.  In  Januar}^,  1829,  the  Illinois 
ministers  and  churches  were  set  off  as  the  Presbytery 
of  Kaskaskia.  In  September,  1831,  the  Presbytery  of 
Missouri  was  divided  by  the  S3mod  of  Illinois  (to  which 
it  had  been  transferred)  into  three  Presbyteries,  St, 
Louis,  St.  Charles  and  Missouri,  the  latter  covering 
all  the  State  west  of  the  other  two.  ''For  some  years 
after  the  general  disruption  of  1837,  the  Missouiri 
Presbyterians  remained  united  and  declined  to  con- 
nect with  either  Assembly.  But  at  last,  in  1840,  the 
division  came.  The  civil  courts  gave  to  the  Old  School 
Synod  of  Missouri  the  records  and  the  succession." 

The  following  ecclesiastical  history  (given  here 
because  it  does  not  appear  in  Dr.  Hill's  book)  antedat- 
ing and  connected  with  the  first  Presbyterian  work 
done  in  our  territory,  has  been  kindly  and  painstak- 
ingly furnished  by  Eev.  W.  0.  H.  Perry,  Stated  Clerk 
of  Platte  Presbytery  A. 

The  godly  women  of  Kentucky  connected  with  the 
Cumberland  Synod  sent  the  first  Home  Missionary'-, 
Rev.  Robert  D.  Morrow,  D.D.,  to  Missouri  about  the 
year  1817.  McGee  Presbj^tery,  organized  in  1819, 
embraced  a  part  of  Illinois  and  the  whole  of  Missouri, 
and  extended  westward  indefinitely.  "The  Cumber- 
land Synod  in  session  at  Russellville,  Ky.,  on  the  third 
Tuesday  in  November,  1827,  passed  the  order  to 
organize  Barnett  Presbytery."  It  included  the  Platte 
Purchase,  the  tier  of  counties  adjoining  it  on  the  east, 
with  Ray  and  Caldwell  and  some  territory  south  of 
the  Missouri.  It  met  at  Lexington  on  the  third  Tues- 
day in  April,  1828  and  the  opening  sermon  was 
preached  by  Rev.  Samuel  King,  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Church.  Rev.  R.  D.  Morrow  was  elected  Moder- 
ator. The  ministers  present  besides  the  two  just 
named  were  Daniel  Patton  and  Henry  Renick.  The 
elders  were  William  Jack  and  Andrew  Robertson. 

"Missouri  Synod,  in  session  at  the  home  of  John 
M.  Bell  in  Chariton  Countv  (probably  near  Keytes- 
ville)   October  18,  1844,  ordered  Platte  Presbvterv  to 


4  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

be  formed  out  of  Barnett."  It  comprised  the  Platte 
Purchase  and  the  adjoining  territory  drained  by  the 
Platte  river.  It  met  at  Miller's  School  House,  in 
Platte  County,  April  11,  1845,  and  was  opened  by  Rev. 
Hugh  R.  Smith.  Rev.  Wm.  T.  Lewis  was  chosen 
]\Ioderator.  The  above  ministers  and  Jesse  R.  Allen, 
Henry  Eppler  and  John  Price  were  present,  together 
with  elders  John  Bigham,  of  Bee  Creek  Church,  Abijah 
Means,  of  Rock  House  Church,  and  Joab  Schultz. 

''August  23,  1872,  Platte  Presbytery,  in  session  at 
Flag  Springs,  Andrew  County,  appointed  Rev.  F.  M. 
Miller,  Rev.  0.  D.  Allen  and  Elder  A.  D.  Capps  a  com- 
mittee to  arrange  for  the  union  of  Barnett  and  Platte 
Presbyteries."  (Barnett  then  included  only  Ray, 
Clay  and  Caldwell  counties  and  a  part  of  Clinton.) 
These  came  before  the  Synod  of  Missouri,  (to  whose 
minutes  I  have  no  access)  that  fall,  and  evidently 
the  desired  action  was  taken. 

Any  one  desiring  to  have  the  ecclesiastical  history^ 
of  this  period  more  at  length  will  find  it  given  in  Dr. 
Hill's  History  of  the  Presbytery  of  Kansas  City.  In 
passing  on,  only  very  little  notice  will  be  taken  of  the 
ecclesiastical  distinctions  and  divisions  that  existed 
during  this  early  period,  for  in  the  final  6utcome  the 
work  done  has,  on  the  whole,  become  inextricably  and 
happily  blended  together. 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 


1826-40. 

All  religious  work  in  this  territory  was  very 
unfavorably  and  seriously  affected  by  the  coming  in 
of  the  Mormons  after  their  expulsion  from  Jackson 
County  in  1833,  as  they  then  scattered  themselves  over 
the  easternmost  counties,  Carroll,  Clay,  Clinton, 
Daviess,  Livingston,  Ray  and  Caldwell,  especially  the 
last  named,  in  which  nearly  four  out  of  the  five  thou- 
sand inhabitants  were  Mormons  at  the  time  of  their 
final  expulsion  from  the  State  in  1838-9,  when  they 
removed  to  Nauvoo,  111. 

The  opening  up  of  the  ''Platte  Country"  in  1837  to 
settlement  started  a  heavy  tide  of  immigration  into 
this  whole  country,  mainly  from  Kentucky,  Tennessee 
and  Virginia.  This  swept  not  only  up  the  Missouri 
into  the  newly  opened  section,  but  also  into  the  Grand 
Eiver  country.  At  that  time  the  Grand  River  was 
navigable  for  a  long  distance  and  was  utilized  by  the 
settlers  as  a  public  highwaj^  The  high  character  of 
these  settlers  for  morality  and  intelligence  is  indicated 
by  the  numerous  churches  they  organized  and  their 
early  founding  of  colleges,  as  that  at  Richmond  and 
the  Grand  River  College  five  miles  from  Trenton,  and 
the  Sugar-tree  Grove  academy  in  Clay  County. 

The  earliest  settlements  in  our  territory  were  very 
naturally  made  along  the  Missouri,  notably  in  Clay 
County,  both  because  it  was  the  farthest  section  open 
to  settlement,  and  also  because  the  military  post  at 
Fort  Leavenworth,  which  was  established  in  1827, 
furnished  a  near  market  for  its  produce.  Hence  we 
find  that  the  only  two  Presbyterian  churches  organized 
during  this  period  in  our  territory  of  which  we  have 
any  satisfactory  record,  were  both  located  in  Clay 
County. 

To  our  Cumberland  brethren  belongs  the  honor  of 
organizing  the  first  church  and  congregation  in  our 
territory,  called  Lebanon.  ''Among  the  early  pioneers 
sent  by  the  women  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Kentuckv  came  the  Rev.  "Robert  D.  Morrow, 


6  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

D.  D.,  a  man  of  power,  filled  with  the  Spirit.  On  June 
3,  1826,  he  organized,  at  the  home  of  Rev.  Henry 
Weeden,  the  Lebanon  congregation  of  the  Cumberland 
Presbj^terian  Church,  which  came  under  the  care  of 
Barnett  Presbytery.  The  original  membership  was 
twentj^-seven.  A  log  meeting  house,  nearly  in  the 
form  of  a  Maltese  cross,  and  afterw^ards  used  as  Sugar- 
tree  Grove  Academy,  was  built  on  a  part  of  the  farm 
then  known  as  ' Weeden 's  Campground.'  It  w^as  lo- 
cated about  two  miles  north  and  about  three-fourths  of 
a  mile  west  of  the  north  end  of  the  present  'Mihvau- 
kee  railroad'  bridge.  The  membership  being  greatly 
depleted  by  deaths  and  removals,  the  organization  was 
moved  into  Platte  county,  to  Second  Creek,  about  two 
miles  southeast  of  Linkville,  and  the  name  changed 
accordingly.  In  connection  with  three  other  denomi- 
nations they  built  a  large,  commodious  brick  church, 
forty  by  sixty  feet^  on  a  ten  acre  tract  designed  for 
camping  and  a  cemetery. 

"Campmeetings  had  been  held  annually  from  the 
first  organization  and  were  continued  at  the  latter 
place  for  a  number  of  years.  At  both  camp  grounds, 
members,  filled  with  a  holy  evangelistic  zeal,  built  log 
cabins  into  which  they  came  with  their  families,  re- 
maining while  the  meeting  lasted,  and  feeding  and 
lodging  the  multitude."  When  one  camp  meeting  was 
over  the  preachers  would  go  to  hold  another  at  some 
point  waiting  for  them. 

(It  is  not  known  by  every  one  that  camp  meetings 
are  a  Presbyterian  institution,  originated,  it  is  said,  by 
Rev.  James  McGread}^  in  1796,  in  Kentucky.  They 
were  the  great  evangelizing  agency  of  that  day  and 
eminently  adapted  to  both  the  state  of  the  countrj-  and 
the  habits  of  the  people.) 

''Again  weakened  by  deaths  and  removals,  the  or- 
ganization was  moved  to  Barry  in  1859,  and  the  name 
changed  accordingly.  The  present  house  was  dedi- 
cated November  13,  1859,  the  dedicatory  sermon  being 
preached  by  Rev.  George  S.  Woodward,  pastor  of  the 
Parkville  Presbyterian  Church,  and  the  dedicatory 
prayer  offered  by  Rev.  G.  L.  IMoad,  the  pastor,  through 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  7 

whose  labor  and  influence  the  house  was  built.  The 
services  were  continued  fifteen  days  and  nights, 
Brother  Woodward  doing  the  preaching,  and  resulted 
in  seventeen  conversions  and  additions.  Revival  ser- 
vices have  been  held  almost  annually  since  the  church 
was  dedicated,  the  last  being  in  August,  1906,  when 
fourteen  were  received  on  profession." 

From  the  above  oar  readers  will  not  be  surprised 
at  some  facts  yet  to  be  given.  The  following  six  of 
its  members  entered  the  ministry:  Benjamin  Musick, 
Thomas  Harmon  Hardwick,  C.  A.  Davis,  Charles  B. 
Hodges,  Joseph  Clark  and  Caleb  Weeden.  The  first 
carried  the  Gospel  to  Oregon  in  1848  or  1849.  The 
second  served  in  mission  work  in  St.  Louis  and  is  be- 
lived  to  have  established  the  first  Cumberland  Presby- 
terian church  in  Alton,  111.,  about  1850,  later  removing 
to  Texas,  where  he  died.  Rev.  C.  A.  Davis,  established 
the  first  permanent  Cumberland  Presbyterian  church 
in  Memphis  Tenn.,  and  died  at  his  post  of  duty  during 
an  epidemic  of  yellow  fever,  refusing  to  leave  his  peo- 
ple. Charles  B.  Hodges,  after  years  of  service  near 
home,  established  and  built  up  the  first  Cumberland 
Presbyterian  church  in  Nebraska  City,  Neb.,  and  after 
aiding  others  in  Nebraska  and  Kansas,  removed  to 
Texas,  where  he  died  in  the  harness  a  few  years  ago. 

''A  Union  Sabbath  School  was  organized  in  Barry- 
on  the  second  Sabbath  in  March,  1860,  with  Dan  Car- 
penter as  superintendent  and  Thomas  S.  Pratt  (Bap- 
tist) as  assistant.  The  Baptists  and  the  Methodists 
(South)  each  had  an  organization  and  monthly  preach- 
ing in  the  church,  and  for  several  years  were  equally 
interested  in  the  Sabbath  School.  But  deaths  and  re- 
movals caused  the  dissolution  of  both  of  these  organi- 
zations, when  the  Sabbath  School  was  made  Cumber- 
land Presbyterian  in  name,  though  it  always  continued 
unsectarian.  For  seventeen  years  it  was  a  'summer' 
school,  continuing  from  March  to  November,  but  since 
then  it  has  been  'evergreen.'  About  250  of  the 
scholars  have  united  with  the  various  churches,  and  six 
have  become  superintendents  of  other  schools.  One  is 
doing  good  work  as  a  minister  of  the  I\I.  E  Church 
(South)." 


8  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

In  the  eighty  years  of  its  existence  this  church  has 
been  served  by  Robert  T>.  Morrow,  Henry  Weeden, 
Caleb  Weeden,  Samuel  King,  Henry  Rennick,  John 
Linville,  Daniel  Patton,  Hugh  R.  Smith,  Jesse  R.  Allen, 
Thos.  Allen,  C.  A.  Davis,  Chas  B.  Hodges,  G.  L.  Moad, 
0.  D.  Allen,  Robert  D.  Miller,  Walter  Schenck,  M.  B. 
Irvine,  John  G.  Fackler,  J.  Harvey  Norman,  James 
Froman,  Chas.  B.  Powers,  S.  T.  Divinia,  S.  H.  Murray, 
R.  B.  Ward  and  D.  M.  Boyer. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  elders:  Benjamin 
Gragg,  Samuel  Tilford,  Joseph  Clark,  Samuel  Hodges, 
John  McKissick,  Thos.  Stokes,  P.  A.  Hardwick,  John 
Stokes,  John  Gragg,  Dan  Carpenter,  Horace  L.  Moore, 
Albert  Tillery,  Henry  R.  Davis,  James  M.  Barnes,  An- 
drew Loughre}^  Jacob  R.  Funk,  G.  W.  Thompson,  G. 
C.  Martin,  Frank  R.  Chambers  and  Frank  P.  Ched- 
ester. 

The  charter  members  were  Thos.  Adams,  Polly  Ad- 
kins,  Cicero  Brown,  Elizabeth  Brown,  Jane  Burns, 
Jeremiah  Burns,  Esther  Davis,  Harmon  Davis,  Charles 
English,  Jane  English,  Jonathan  English,  Polly 
English,  Rebecca  English,  Edna  Fox,  Nancy  Frost, 
Benjamin  Gragg,  Anna  Harris,  iMatilda  Linville,  John 
McKissick,  Patsv  McKissick,  David  Magill.  David  P. 
Magill,  Sally  Magill,  Wm.  IMalott,  Edna  AVeeden, 
Henry  J.  Weeden  and  Sarah  Whitson. 

The  preceding  information  has  been  furnished  by 
Elder  Dan  Carpenter,  who  has  been  Clerk  of  Session 
and  Treasurer  for  forty-seven  years,  as  well  as  Super- 
intendent of  the  Sabbath  School  for  the  same  period, 
and  for  the  last  five  years  of  a  flourishing  country 
Sabbath  School  which  meets  in  the  afternoon.  He  is 
still  active  in  every  good  work,  in  which  his  no  less 
devoted  wife,  Mrs.  Pauline  Gash  Carpenter,  has  been 
for  over  fifty  years  equally  efficient  as  co-worker.  He 
is  widely  known  in  all  the  country,  both  as  a  successful 
business  man  and  as  an  untiring,  self-sacriflcing  Chris- 
tian worker,  and  might  well  be  called  the  "people's 
minister,"  for  he  has  officiated  at  over  two  hundred 
funerals.  He  was  born  at  Hanging  Rock,  O.,  March  7, 
1825,  and  began  business  as  a  merchant  at  Randolph, 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  9 

Mo.,  in  1845,  removing  in  1847  to  Barry,  which  has 
since  been  his  home. 

Of  the  wealth  of  biographical  sketches  of  the  ' '  wor- 
thies" of  this  church  furnished  by  Elder  Carpenter,  a 
few  (only  a  few  because  of  lack  of  room)  will  be  given 
to  show  the  material  that  made  up  this  church  which, 
while  never  strong  numerically  or  financially,  has 
weathered  adversity  and  been  a  mighty  power  for 
good.  These  sketches  have  been  largely  condensed 
and  so  much  of  interest  necessarily  omitted. 

Miss  Margaret  Gregg  (familiarly  known  as  ''Aunt 
Peggy"),  daughter  of  Harmon  Gregg,  a  Pennsylvanian 
of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  was  born  in  Tennessee,  July 
31,  1801.  She  was  brought  early  to  Missouri,  where 
her  parents,  for  protection,  lived  in  Cooper's  Fort,  and 
where  she  saw  Capt.  Cooper  killed  by  the  Indians.  She 
was  married  in  Howard  county,  October  9,  1821,  to 
Capt.  Philip  A.  Hardwicke,  a  well  known  and  efficient 
officer  in  the  early  Indian  wars,  who  settled  in  1824 
near  "Weeden's  Campground,"  and  was  received  in 
1828  into  the  Lebanon  Church,  which  he  served  effi- 
ciently and  faithfully  as  elder  from  1843  till  his  death, 
April  22,  1851.  After  training  up  her  ten  children, 
Mrs.  Hardwicke  "again  took  up  her  work  in  the  service 
of  the  Master,"  and  was  called  to  her  reward  Novem- 
ber 29,  1892,  after  sixty-two  years  of  service  in  the 
Lebanon  Church.  "Her  whole  life  was  a  living  epistle 
to  be  read  by  all  those  who  came  within  the  range  of 
her  influence." 

Benjamin  Gragg,  the  first  elder  of  Lebanon  Church, 
was  born  in  Cooke  county,  Tenn.,  December  28,  1791, 
came  to  Missouri  in  1819  and  to  Clay  county  in  1822. 
A  soldier  under  Gen.  Jackson  in  the  war  of  1812,  he 
enlisted  under  the  banner  of  the  cross  in  1823  and 
served  most  faithfulh-  for  forty-eight  years — till  his 
death,  Jnne  30,  1871.  His  younger  brother,  John,  bom 
February  11,  1810,  Avho  came  to  Missouri  when  he  did, 
also  became  an  elder  in  the  Lebanon  Church,  serving 
till  his  death,  July  28,  1881.  These  brothers  "were 
pillars  of  strength  and  wisdom  who  largely  bore  up 
and  carried  forward  the  work  all  their  years,  adorn- 
ing their  lives  with  a  holy  conversation  and  pure  walk. 


10  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

To  them,  especially  John,  in  connection  with  Rev.  G.  L. 
Moad,  belongs  the  honor  of  building  the  church  in 
Barry  and  giving  it  the  impetus  of  whatever  success 
it  may  have  had  in  the  Master's  cause."  Both  were 
men  of  unusual  intelligence,  especially  in  the  Scrip- 
tures and  Christian  doctrine,  broad-minded,  and  in 
close  touch  ''with  all  the  pioneer  ministers  of  all  the 
churches  in  the  West."  Both  their  wives  were  a 
"present  help  in  every  time  of  need  and  trouble." 

Their  sister,  Mahala  Gr a gg,  who  died  February  19, 
1895,  aged  over  eighty-one  years,  and  after  sixty-one 
years  of  service  for  the  Master,  "was  an  almost  uni- 
versal nurse  in  sickness  among  her  neighbors,  ex- 
emplifying pure  and  undefiled  religion  by  visiting  the 
fatherless  and  widows  in  their  affliction  and  keeping 
herself  unspotted  from  the  world." 

Samuel  Hodges,  born  in  Norfolk  county,  Va.,  in 
1789,  came  to  Fulton  county,  Ky.,  in  1810.  He  served 
as  a  minute  man  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  married  Miss 
Nancy  Cain  in  1822.  To  them  were  bom  two  daugh- 
ters and  five  sons,  three  of  whom  measured  six  feet  six 
inches  in  height.  All  were  ardent  Cumberland  Pres- 
byterians, and  one,  Charles  B,  (already  mentioned),  a 
well  known  and  popular  minister.  In  1851  the  family 
came  to  Platte  county  and  settled  near  Avhere  Linkville 
now  stands.  He  served  as  elder  many  years — till  his 
death  in  1875.  In  1876,  his  children,  with  a  number 
of  others,  built  a  church  in  Linkville. 

Joseph  D.  Gash  was  born  near  Asheville,  N.  C,  No- 
vember 4,  1797,  and  on  September  17,  1822,  married 
Miss  Eliza  Killian,  of  Hendersonville,  N.  C,  who  was 
born  -March  3,  1801.  Having  entered  a  large  body  of 
land  in  Clay  county  in  1824,  they  moved  here  in  1831, 
and  soon  united  with  Lebanon  Church  by  letter.  ' '  They 
built  comfortable  cabins  at  both  camp  grounds,  en- 
tertained freely  and  were  earnest  workers  for  the  Mas- 
ter during  their  entire  lives,  and  liberal  in  their  sup- 
port of  the  church  in  all  its  work.  ]\Iinisters  were  hos- 
pitably entertained  and  often  preached  in  their  home 
before  churches  were  built.  They  were  staunch  Pres- 
byterians, training  their  children  well."     Their  daugh- 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  11 

ter,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  George,  who  died  November  18, 
1906,  ag-ed  eighty-four  years,  has  the  record  of  sixty- 
five  years  and  three  months  of  faithful  Christian 
service  in  connection  with  this  church. 

The  first  regular  Presbyterian  Church  in  our  terri- 
tory was  organized  at  Liberty,  Clay  county.  Happily 
the  complete  records  of  that  church  are  in  existence. 

' '  On  the  29th  day  of  August,  1829,  a  number  of  per- 
sons convened  in  a  grove  in  the  west  part  of  Liberty, 
Mo.,  and  after  a  sermon,  notice  having  been  previously 
given  for  that  purpose,  they  presented  themselves  and 
were  organized  into  a  church,  as  follows : 

''Rev.  Hiram  Chamberlain,  of  the  Presbytery  of  Mis- 
souri, presided,  aided  by  Rev.  N.  B.  Dodge,  of  the 
Harmony  Mission.  Letters  were  received  in  testimony 
of  the  qualifications  of  the  following,  viz. :  Archibald 
Mcllvaine  and  wife,  Mrs.  Hannah .  Mcllvaine,  James 
McWilliams  and  Mary  his  wife,  Walter  Davis  and 
Margaret,  his  wife',  William  Modrel,  Margaret  Ward, 
Hannah  Thompson,  Isabella  Moore  and  Jane  P.  Looney 
and  her  daughter,  Poll}^  W.  Looney.  The  following 
persons  were  admitted  on  examination,  they  having 
been  members  of  Presbyterian  churches  and  removing 
without  letters,  viz. :  Robert  Elliott  and  Sarah  his 
wife,  and  Mrs.  Mary  Long.  After  these  examinations 
were  made,  the  following  covenant  was  read  to  the 
members  present  and  solemly  assented  to  by  them: 
Having  professed  your  sincere  belief  of  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures; your  firm  faith  in  the  adorable  Trinity:  your 
hopes  of  pardon  through  Christ  your  Redeemer,  you, 
and  each  one  of  you,  do  now  in  the  presence  of  God 
and  before  these  witnesses,  enter  into  solemn  covenant 
with  this  church  that  you  will  submit  yourselves  to  its 
government  and  ordinances;  that  you  will  praj^  for  its 
peace  and  enlargement;  that  you  will  study  to  pro- 
mote its  edification;  that  you  will  make  the  Word  of 
God  3^our  constant  rule  of  faith  and  practice ;  that  you 
will  most  earnestly  endeavor  to  walk  in  all  the  ways  of 
the  Lord  blameless;  and  that  by  a  pure  conversation 
and  by  holy  living  you  will  seek  to  convince  the  world 
of  the  superior  excellence  of  our  holy  religion  and  try 


12  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

to  win  them  over  to  the  service  of  Jesus  Christ.     Do 
you  thus  covenant  and  promise? 

'^  Having  given  their  solemn  assent,  the  members 
were  then  informed  that  they  were  authorized  to  elect 
their  church  officers,  and  after  an  address  to  the  throne 
of  grace  imploring  Divine  direction,  the  following  per- 
sons were  declared  duly  elected:  Robert  Elliott, 
James  Mc Williams  and  William  Modrel.  Notice  was 
given  that  the  elders-elect  would  be  ordained  on  the 
morrow,  and  services  were  closed  by  singing  and 
Xjrayer.  The  church  met  on  August  30th,  and  after 
sermon  the  elders-elect  were  set  apart  and  ordained 
according  to  the  form  of  government  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church. 

' '  Attest :  H.  CHAMBERLAIN, 

"Moderator." 


Mr.  Chamberlain  was  the  first  pastor,  and  the 
church  has  since  been  served  b}^  the  following  minis- 
ters: John  L.  Yantis,  Wm.  Dickson,  J.  M.  Inskeep, 
R.  H.  Allen,  J.  C.  Thornton^  John  G.  Packler,  John 
Hancock,  Robert  Scott,  David  Coulter,  John  P.  Fore- 
man, J.  L.  Caldwell,  E.  McNair,  John  N.  McFarlane, 
Wm.  Frost  Bishop  and  J.  J.  Hill. 

The  full  roll  of  elders,  in  addition  to  the  three 
named  above,  is  as  follows:  Allen  Denny,  Joseph 
Clark,  William  T.  Wood,  William  Inskeep,  Thomas 
Sublette,  Edward  M.  Samuel,  Greenup  Bird,  C.  C. 
Trabue,  James  T.  Marsh,  M.  D.,  William  Webb,  John 
A.  Denny,  A.  M.  Chase,  Lewis  B.  Dougherty,  James 
Love,  James  Robb,  Ambrose  M.  Griffith,  John  J.  Gaw% 
A.  C.  Courtnev,  W.  L.  Trimble,  Morton  Marsh,  Prof. 
John  Staley,  Prof.  E.  J.  Scott,  George  W.  Herbold, 
Irving  Gilmer  and  John  Laipple. 

It  is  a  cause  of  regret  that  we  are  able  to  give 
even  a  brief  sketch  of  only  one  of  the  ''pillars"  of 
this  early  ''evergreen"  and  influential  church. 

Dr.  James  T.  Marsh  was  born  Februaiy  18,  1833,  at 
the  old  family  homestead  in  the  Gilead  neighborhood, 
his  father  havino:  come  from  Kentucky  in  1827.     He 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  13 

• 

graduated  from  Westminster  College  in  1857,  and  a 
St.  Louis  medical  college  in  18'60.  He  began  practice 
in  Liberty  and  remained  there  till  his  death,  February 
16,  1907.*^  He  was  ordained  as  elder  October  7,  1866, 
in  the  Liberty  church,  and  retired  from  active  service 
in  1901.  He  was  active  both  as  a  Christian  and  a  citi- 
zen, and  could  always  be  depended  on  as  elder  as  well 
as  physician.  Faithfulness  was  a  very  marked  trait  of 
his  character. 


14  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 


1841. 

The  first  Presbyterian  church  in  the  Platte  Pur- 
chase of  which  we  have  any  definite  record  was  called 
West  Union  and  was  organized.  June  11,  1841,  by  Rev. 
E.  A.  Carson.  The  only  other  fact  about  it  on  record 
is  that  it  was  disbanded  April  6,  1850,  by  the  Presby- 
teiy  of  Lexington,  and  its  records  ordered  transferred 
to  the  Weston  church.  This  last  fact  may  give  us  a 
hint  of  its  location,  of  which  nothing  definite  is  known, 
unless  it  should  possibly  be  the  church  spoken  of  by  Dr. 
E.  B.  Sherw^ood  in  his  Autobiography  (page  103)  as 
being  "about  ten  miles  northw^est  of  Savannah  and 
about  three  miles  this  side  of  Fillmore." 

The  earliest  permanent  organization  was  near  Sa- 
vannah. We  are  able  to  give  an  unusually  full  ac- 
count of  this  church,  thanks  to  the  painstaking  and 
unwearied  co-operation  of  the  pastor  and  the  long-time 
Clerk  of  Session,  Elder  H.  B.  McDonald.  The  early 
history  here  given  consists  mainly  of  extracts  from  a 
History  of  Andrew  County  published  a  few  years  ago, 
and  a  memorial  sermon  preached  by  the  pastor.  Rev. 
A.  W.  McGlothlan,  on  Christmas  clay,  1904,  the  last 
Sabbath  in  which  services  were  held  in  the  old  build- 
ing. 

•'A  number  of  families,  most  of  them  from  the 
State  of  Kentucky,  had  settled  in  the  western  part  of 
the  county  where,  with  heroic  spirit  and  surrounded 
with  conditions  peculiar  to  a  new  country,  they  Avere 
striving  to  support  themselves  and  their  families.  This 
was  not  a  dilficult  task  so  far  as.  food  and  clothin«r 
were  concerned ;  but  they  were  not  satisfied  with  these 
alone.  The  greater  portion  of  them  were  interested 
in  the  intellectual  and  moral  development  of  their 
children.  A  log  school  house  had  been  erected  on  what 
is  now  known  as  the  Andrew  Barr  farm,  then  owned 
by  Robert  Elliott.  It  was  in  this  school  house  on  a 
hot  Sabbath  afternoon,  August  7,  1841,  that  a  number 
of  the  people  living  in  the  settlement  came  together 
for  a  religious  service.  The  Rev.  Elijah  A.  Carson 
preached  to  them  and  at  the  close  of  the  service  pro- 
posed the  organization  of  a  Presbvterian  church." 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  15 

The  folloAvino-  paper  was  then  adopted  and  signed 
by  twenty-four  persons : 

"We,  the  subscribers  and  citizens  of  Andrew  and 
adjoining  counties,  who  have  emigrated  from  other 
portions  of  the  country  and  were  members  of  the  Pres- 
byterian and  other  churches  in  Christ,  since  there  are 
no  churches  in  this  newly  settled  country  with 
which  we  feel  disposed  to  unite,  having  credentials 
from  churches  to  which  we  belonged,  believing  that 
we  are  the  children  of  God  and  having  a  good  hope 
of  life  through  faith  in  Christ,  and  in  all  humility  de- 
siring to  avail  ourselves  of  the  privileges  of  Christ's 
visible  church,  of  which  we  are  now  deprived,  by 
serving  Him  according  to  the  doctrines  of  God's  Word 
and  ordinances  of  His  house  and  governed  by  the 
discipline  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  do,  by  subscrib- 
ing our  names,  evince  that  it  is  our  earnest  solicitude 
to  be  organized  into  a  Presbyterian  church,  which  shall 
be  called  by  whatever  name  a  majority  of  us  shall  wish 
and  vote  for  at  the  time  of  organization." 

A  number  of  regulations  were  also  adopted,  one  of 
which  gave  any  one  the  privilege  of  withdrawing  at 
any  future  time  in  order  to  unite  Avith  a  church  of  their 
preference. 

The  twenty-four  who  signed  the  above  paper  were 
Aury  Ballard,  Sarah  Ballard,  Keziali  Beattie,  Abraham 
Brubaker,  Elizabeth  Brubaker,  George  Brubaker,  Julia 
A.  Brubaker,  Elijah  A.  Carson,  Mary  J.  Carson,  Harriet 
Castle,  James  Davis,  Harriet  Davis,  John  E.  Davis, 
Sarah  A.  Davis,  Jane  E.  Hardy,  David  C.  Montgomery, 
Jane  Montgomery,  Gilbert  Ray,  Elizabeth  Ray,  ^lary 
A.  Rodgers,  Thomas  Rodgers  and  W.  H.  Rodgers. 

Of  these  Aury  Ballard,  George  Brubaker,  James 
Davis  and  W.  H.  Rodgers  were  elected  Ruling  Elders. 

Rev.  E.  A.  Carson  became  and  continued  pastor  till 
the  union  of  the  two  Savannah  churches. 

For  a  time  the  church  was  called  Pisgah,  which  was 
soon  changed  to  Savannah,  it  being  from  the  first  the 
purpose  of  the  founders  to  remove  to  the  county  seat 
when  that  should  be  located.  "Meetings  were  held 
regularly  on  'Hackberry  Ridge'  until  in  December, 
1842,"   when    the   church    began   holding   services   in 


16  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

Savannah  "in  the  old  courthouse  which  stood  on  the 
corner  of  Sixth  and  Market  streets,  diagonally  across 
from  where  the  new  church  now  stands."  Here  the 
church  continued  to  worship  and  grow  in  strength. 
"In  the  mean  time  a  Sabbath  School,  the  first  in  Savan- 
nah, was  organized,  which  became  a  valuable  auxiliary 
to  the  church  imder  the  efficient  management  of  Mr. 
Carson  and  his  wife. ' ' 

Feeling  the  need  of  more  room,  the  congregation 
purchased  a  lot  on  Third  street,  "and  a  neat  brick 
structure  was  erected  in  1848,  which  cost  over  $3,100, 
nearly  all  of  which  sum  was  generously  donated  by 
Mr.  Carson,  who  contributed  besides  a  great  deal  of 
time  and  labor  to  the  building." 

It  has  seemed  best  to  the  compiler  that  when  a 
church  is  first  mentioned,  its  whole  history  should  be 
given  then  and  there,  including  that  of  other  churches 
which  may  have  united  with  it.  Hence,  anticipating 
the  future,  we  will  here  speak  of  the  Old  School  Church 
which  was  organized  here  eight  years  later.  Its  records 
having  disappeared,  we  are  unable  to  give  definite 
and  full  particulars. 

There  were  two  Old  School  churches  in  the  county, 
the  exact  date  of  whose  organizations  is  unknown, 
the  one.  Hound  Prairie,  about  thirteen  miles  northwest 
of  Savannah,  at  or  near  the  present  town  of  Fillmore ; 
the  other,  Flag  Springs,  about  the  same  distance  in  a 
northeast  direction. 

"In  1849  an  Old  School  Presbyterian  Church  was 
formed  in  Savannah  by  the  consolidation  of  what  were 
known  as  the  Round  Prairie  and  Flag  Springs  congre- 
gations, after  a  series  of  meetings  conducted  by  Revs. 
R.  H.  Allen  and  R.  S.  Symington.  The  number  of 
members  was  about  forty-five  including  those  who 
identified  themselves  with  the  society  during  these 
meetings.  Robert  Elliot,  Wm.  Nichols,  Dr.  H.  Smith  and 
Martin  Bayles  were  chosen  elders.  They  selected  as 
their  pastor  Rev.  Charles  Stewart  from  Kentucky,  who 
died  in  1852,  and  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  W.  D.  Syming- 
ton, who  served  the  church  nine  years.  Rev.  "W.  H. 
Strvker  came  next,  and  he  was  followed  bv  Rev.  J. 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  17 

Emoiy   Fisher,   during  whose   pastorate   the   Old   and 
New  School  churches  united, ' ' 

In  this  year  (or  more  probably  in  the  summer  of 
1840)  there  came  into  this  territory  a  pioneer,  Rev. 
Elijah  A.  Carson,  who  did  much  to  mold  society  and 
to  build  up  the  cause  of  Christ.  Having  received  a  full 
classical  and  theological  training  (the  latter  a  practi- 
cal one  under  a  pastor)  he  was  ordained  by  the  Pres- 
bytery of  French  Broad,  and  labored  in  Tennessee  and 
Virginia  as  a  home  missionary,  under  the  direction  of 
Presbytery  until  he  came  to  Missouri,  teaching  also 
much  of  the  time.  He  was  a  far-seeing  and  broad- 
minded  man,  throwing  his  whole  soul  into  the  work 
of  benefiting  in  any  and  every  way  the  country  to  which 
he  had  come.  He  taught  the  first  school  in  Savannah 
and  was  recognized  and  honored  equally  as  citizen  and 
minister,  being  elected  Circuit  Clerk  of  Andrew  county 
for  several  successive  terms.  The  following  sketch  is 
furnished  by  a  neighbor  and  co-presbyter: 

"Rev.  Elijah  A.  Carson  was  among  the  first,  if  not 
the  very  first  minister  to  settle  in  the  new  territory 
obtained  from  the  Indians  by  the  Platte  Purchase.  As 
soon  as  the  town  of  Savannah  was  organized  he  moved 
within  its  bounds  and  resided  there  until  he  died.  The 
condition  and  manner  of  life — the  character  of  the 
scattered  people  also — were  scaircely  different  from 
what  he  had  been  accustomed  to  in  Tennessee. 
Eggleston's  Circuit  Rider  would  give  a  fairly  correct 
idea  of  Western  Missouri  in  the  early  '40s.  Mr.  Carson 
belonged  to  that  period,  was  made  by  it,  suited  it. 

''As  an  educated  man  he  devoted  himself  to  teach- 
ing and  preaching  while  largely  supporting  himself 
on  the  land  he  had  entered.  The  w^ork  he  did  was 
missionary,  heroic,  unselfish.  He  was  a  man  of  posi- 
tive convictions,  strict  integrity,  and  a  high  sense  of 
honor. 

"For  his  church  no  sacrifice  was  too  great.  He 
gave  more  than  did  all  the  members  together  toward 
the  erection  of  the  Brick  Church  in  Savannah,  selling 
a  large  part  of  his  land  to  raise  the  money. 


18  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

' '  The  war  which  broke  up  nearly  every  New  School 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  state,  brought  divisions 
among  the  brethren  in  Savannah.  Finally  the  perver- 
sion of  the  Brick  Church  and  the  refusal  of  the  new 
Presbytery  of  Platte  to  right  the  wrong,  so  deeply 
hurt  him  that  he  withdrew  and  Joined  the  Southern 
Presbytery  of  Upper  Missouri. ' ' 

In  1905  when  Platte  Presbytery  met  in  the  beauti- 
ful new  church  in  Savannah,  it  was  thought  that  the 
time  had  come  for  some  public  recognition  of  the 
services  of  the  first  Presbyterian  pastor  of  Savannah, 
and  a  marble  tablet  has  been  placed  in  the  church 
with  the  following  inscription: 


In  memory  of 

REV.  ELIJAH  A.  CARSON. 

Born  in  Tenn.  June  30,  1810. 

Ordained,  1835.     Came  to  Mo.  1841. 

The  same  year  he  taught  the  first  school 

and  organized  the  first  church 

IN  ANDREW  CO. 

Pastor  of  that  church 

1841-1853. 

Stated  Clerk  of  Lexington  Presbytery. 

.  Died  in  Savannah,  Mo.  Oct.  16,  1891. 

A  TRIBUTE  BY  THE  PRESBYTERY. 

''In  labors  more   abundant. 

In  journeyings  often." 


The  following  sketches  have  been  furnished  by 
residents  of  Savannah: 

''It  may  truly  be  said  that  no  more  earnest,  devoted, 
consecrated  servants  of  God  have  had  membership  in 
His  church  here  upon  earth  than  David  Landers  and 
Deborah  his  wife.  Faithful  in  all  their  dutie^ 
towards  God  and  man,  they  were  blessed  with  a  long 
life  of  over  three  score  and  ten  years,  and  left  the 
impress  of  their  character  upon  a  number  of  noble 
Christian  sons  and  dauarhters." 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  19 

''Of  Mrs.  iNIargaret  Smith  it  may  be  said  that  God's 
true  work  in  the  conversion  of  the  soul  was  fully  shown 
in  her  life.  Although  called  upon  to  endure  severe 
trials  and  great  bodily  afflictions,  especially  in  the 
latter  part  of  her  life,  she  was  ever  faithfulto  the  vows 
made  in  earlier  years.  Her  greatest  joy  seemed  to  be 
in  reading  God's  Word  and  talking  of  His  great  love 
to  her." 

Mr.  Andrew  Barr  was  for  many  years  an  elder  in 
this  church.  He  was  a  pioneer  farmer  whose  manifold 
duties  nev^r  interfered  with  the  occupancy  of  a 
certain  front  pew  in  the  church  by  him  and  his 
large  family  on  the  Sabbath  day.  His  five  sons  and 
two  daughters,  still  living  in  Andrew  county,  all  Chris- 
tians and,  with  one  exception,  Presbyterians,  testify 
by  their  lives  to  his  faithfulness  as  a  godly  father, 

Mr.  Colin  C.  Somerville  was  for  many  years  a  uni- 
que and  influential  figure  in  the  Savannah  Church. 
Born  in  Scotland,  of  a  long  line  of  Presbyterian 
ancestry,  he  could  scarce  be  other  than  what  he  was, 
a  staunch  and  loyal  Presbyterian.  Among  the  inti- 
mate friends  of  his  school  days,  he  numbered  Horatius 
Bonar,  the  great  hymn  writer,  and  Robert  Murray 
McCheyne,  ''the  sainted  McCheyne."  His  brother.  Dr. 
Somerville,  of  Edinburgh,  was  one  of  the  greatest 
preachers  of  his  day.  Mr.  Somerville  had  an  exception- 
ally tine  bass  voice  and  was  a  member  of  the  church 
choir  for  many  years. 

He  was  a  poet  of  no  mean  ability  and  left  a  publish- 
ed volume  of  poems  which  have  been  a  source  of 
pleasure  and  comfort  to  his  many  friends  here  and  in 
the  old  country. 

Mrs.  Hallie  J.  Stuart  was  one  of  those  "Mothers  in 
Israel"  whose  helpful  influence  will  long  be  felt  in  this 
community.  No  task  was  too  hard  for  her  undertak- 
ing if  dione  for  the  church,  and  she  possessed  to  a 
remarkable  degree,  the  power  of  enlisting  others  in  the 
work.  This  gave  her  for  years,  an  acknowledged  lead- 
ership among  the  women  of  the  church,  a  position  which 
she  held  to  the  day  of  her  death,  in  1901.  For  a  long 
time  she  was  teacher  of  the  Primary  Department  in 


20  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

the  Sabbath  School,  and  a  very  beautiful  window  in 
the  new  church  stands  as  a  memorial  to  her  faithful 
service  in  the  church  she  loved. 

Mrs.  Mary  Stuart  Russell,  daughter  of  the  above, 
is  one  whose  name  should  be  mentioned  in  this  con- 
nection. From  a  child  she  was  the  organist  of  the 
Sabbath  School  and  after  her  marriage,  her  beautiful 
home  on  Christian  Ridge  was  a  recognized  stopping 
place  for  the  transient  minister  and  was  always  open 
to  any  kind  of  gathering  in  the  interest  of  the  church. 
By  her  splendid  liberality,  she  was  enabled  to  rescue 
the  church  from  many  a  financial  difficulty.  She  is 
now  a  resident  of  Spokane,  Washington,  but  continues 
her  liberal  subscription  to  the  expenses  of  the  Savan- 
nah Church. 

Other  women  whose  names  are  deserving  of  mention 
because  of  their  great  service  to  the  Master's  cause 
in  this  church  are,  Mrs.  James  Reed,  w^ho  literally  gave 
her  life  for  the  work  here,  Mrs.  Mary  Carson,  Mrs. 
T.  D.  Roberts,  and  Mrs.  J.  R.  Caldwell. 


Since  the  reunion  in  1870,  the  Savannah  Church 
has  been  served  bv  Revs.  Robert  Cruikshank,  G.  A. 
Pollock,  W.  G.  Keady,  T.  D.  Roberts,  W.  T.  Voss, 
James  Reed,  W.  A.  Cravens  and  A.  W.  McGlothlan; 
and  Elders  W.  S.  Earls,  H.  T.  Walker,  Andrew  Barr, 
Upton  Rohrer,  H.  H.  Dobbins,  W.  E.  Smith,  John  H. 
Tvner,  John  R  Caldwell,  R.  H.  Stuart,  J.  F.  Waters, 
Jacob  Schell,  H.  B.  McDonald,  J.  W.  Grant,  Rudolph 
Born,  J.  P.  Burns,  J.  H.  Graff  and  William  M.  Kerr. 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  21 


1842-3. 

The  first  cliurch  whose  beginning-  is  recorded  in 
this  period  is  Plum  Grove,  organized  by  Rev.  George 
M.  Crawford,  Jnly  17,  1842.  In  1846  it  reported  thirty 
members,  lis  last  appearance  in  the  Minutes  of  Lex- 
ington Presbytery  was  in  1859,  and  it  had  then  been 
vacant  for  some  years.  Nothing  is  known  of  its  loca- 
tion, and  it  mav  liave  been  south  of  tlie  Missouri  River. 


Mt.  Zion  Church  wa8  organized  August  20,  1842,  by 
Rev.  E.  A.  Carson,  'Mn  a  frame  building,  thirty  by  forty 
feet,  erected  expressly  for  the  worship  of  God,  on  the 
Grand  River  about  ten  miles  south  of  Albany.  Mr. 
James  C.  Patton  had  given  four  acres  for  the  location 
of  the  church  and  cemetery,  and  ten  acres  adjoining 
this  for  use  as  a  camp  ground,  which  remained  so  set 
apart  until  a  recent  date." 

The  original  members  were  ^lary  IMissimer,  Philij) 
T\[issimer,  Belinda  J.  Patton,  Hugh  L,  W.  Patton,  James 
C.  Patton  and  Isabella,  his  wife,  James  H.  Patton, 
Sarah  A.  M,  Patton,  William  A.  Patton,  Margaret  J. 
AVhitton,  Jeremiah  S.  Young  and  Ruth  Young.  "AV 
but  the  last  two  produced  certilicates  from  the  Mt.  Zion 
Church  in  Tennessee,  signed  by  Rev.  T.  Brown,  pastor. 
J.  C.  Patton  and  J.  S.  Young  were  elected  elders,  and 
Caleb  Simi)son,  Booker  Smith  and  H.  L.  W.  Patton, 
trustees." 

In  those  early  years  ]\It.  Zion  Church  was  the 
"Mecca  of  Presbyterianism"  for  a  very  large  section. 
It  never  became  very  large,  many  of  its  members  going 
from  time  to  time  to  form  new  churches  in  the  vicinity, 
and  at  times  it  has  been  greatly  reduced,  but  since  the 
recent  reunion  it  has  taken  on  new  life  and  is  nobly 
doing  a  much  needed  work.  Soon  after  a  camp  meet- 
ing held  at  Mt  Zion  by  Rev.  A.  B.  Hobbs,  in  August, 
1907,  the  Mt.  Zion  Church  was  reorganized,  with 
George  ]\lcConkey,  Isaac  G.  Patton  and  William  Whit- 
ton  as  elders.     William  A.  Patton,  who  had  been  a-n 


22  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

elder  for  fortv  years,  and  the  only  one  for  several 
years,  had  died  April  28,  1900.  For  the  first  fifty-eight 
years  of  its  existence  the  church  had  but  six  elders,  J. 
C.  Patton,  J.  S.  Young-,  Martin  Low,  David  F.  Jameson, 
James  W.  Owen  and^  W.  A.  Patton.  D.  F.  Jameson, 
who  died  December  25,  1889,  served  as  elder  for  over 
thirty-five  years,  and  as  clerk  of  session  for  over 
twenty-six.  Eev.  Timothy  Morgan  was  the  first  per- 
manent supply,  and  Rev.  John  Dykes  came  later.  The 
original  frame  church  was  replaced  by  a  brick  build- 
ing, the  bricks  for  which  were  made  under  the  super- 
vision of  Mr.  Patton,  on  his  farm.  This  building  hav- 
ing become  unfit  for  worship,  his  son,  Isaac  A.  Patton, 
donated  in  his  will  one  thousand  dollars  for  a  new 
building.  With  this  the  present  neat  little  church  was 
built  in  1892,  on  the  same  site. 

James  C.  Patton  was  bom  in  Augusta  county,  Vir- 
ginia, July  24,  1787.  In  1809  he  emigrated  to  TenneSvsee, 
where  he  continued  to  reside  till  he  came  to  Missouri 
in  the  spring  of  1841.  September  15,  1841,  he  settled 
in  Miller  township.  Gentry  county,  near  Gentryville. 
He  found  a  sparsely  settled  country,  with  its  society 
unorganized.  Neither  a  school  house  or  church  had 
been  built  in  the  county.  Being  a  very  devout  and  en- 
ergetic man,  his  next  act,  after  providing  shelter  for 
his  family,  was  to  donate  a  suitable  location  for  a 
church  and  cemeterj^,  and  almost  unaided,  except  by 
his  own  family,  he  built  a  frame  house  of  worship,  and 
called  it  Mt.  Zion.  He  was,  in  truth,  a  patriarch.  It 
is  sad  that  such  a  life  had  a  tragic  end.  He  espoused 
the  cause  of  the  South  in  the  civil  war,  but  remained 
at  home,  as  he  was  old  and  feeble.  Being  an  influen- 
tial citizen,  soldiers  were  sent,  in  May,  1862,  to  arrest 
him.  They  took  him  to  Albany  and  placed  him  under 
guard  in  the  Court  House.  Being  a  Southern  gentle- 
man, his  indignation  at  such  harsh  treatment  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  the  cause  of  his  death,  a  few  hours 
later,  when  he  fell  from  his  chair,  surrounded  by  none 
but  rude  soldiers.  His  body  was  interred  at  Mt.  Zion, 
where  sleep  all  his  ten  children,  except  one  who  is  still 
living. 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  23 

William  A.  Patton,  son  of  J.  C.  Patton,  was  bom  in 
Monroe  county,  Tennessee,  December  1,  1819,  and  was 
reared  on  a  farm,  receiving  his  education  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  his  native  county.  He  came  to  Mis- 
souri with  his  father  in  1841.  ''He  was  of  like  char- 
acter with  his  father,  whose  mantle  fell  on  his  shoul- 
ders. With  the  aid  of  a  few  others  he  held  a  Sabbath 
School  during  the  war  in  a  school  house  near  Gentry- 
ville.  During  the  whole  of  his  long  life  he  was  not 
only  an  active  and  ardent  church  and  Sunday  school 
Avorker,  but  he  was  also  by  precept  and  example  a 
zealous  advocate  of  the  cause  of  temperance."  He 
was  prominent  as  a  citizen  and  a  business  man.  He 
erected  in  Albany  the  first  steam  saw  and  grist  mill  in 
the  county,  and  built  the  old  Court  House. 

Eliza  C.  Owen  was  born  in  Monroe  county,  Ten- 
nessee, August  5,  1827.  She  was  married  to  W.  A. 
Patton,  February  27,  1845,  and  came  with  him  to  the 
neighborhood  of  Mt  Zion.  She  was  converted  and 
united  Avith  the  Mt.  Zion  Church  in  1848.  ''Being  a 
Avoman  of  remarkable  strength  of  character,  clearness 
of  religious  experience  and  gentleness  of  disposition, 
with  firmness  of  conscience,  her  religion  showed  bright- 
ly to  family  and  friends."     She  died  January  31,  1907. 

For  the  material  for  the  above  history  and  sketches, 
we  are  indebted  to  Miss  Flora  L.  McCammon,  a  great- 
grand-daughter  of  James  C.  Patton. 


As  Ave  learn  from  Paxton's  Annals  of  Platte 
County,  the  Weston  Church  was  organized  August  28, 
1842,  by  Rev.  E.  A.  Carson,  with  the  following  mem- 
bers: Mary  Cowles,  Robert  A,  Cummins,  America  P. 
Hudson,  Anna  Nash,  Elizabeth  Neville,  Elizabeth  Nor- 
ton, Samuel  Norton,  Roderick  G.  Stevens  and  P.  M. 
Underbill.  Another  authority  gives  also  Caroline  R. 
Case. 

As  all  the  records  prior  to  1871  are  lost,  but  little 
of  the  early  history  can  be  given.  A  brick  church, 
forty  by  sixty  feet  and  costing  four  or  five  thousand 
dollars,  AA^as  erected  in  1844.     Rev.  Edmiuid  Wright, 


24  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

who  was  received  by  the  Presbytery  of  Lexington,  Oc- 
tober 28,  1842,  was  pastor  for  seven  years.  Rev.  Fred- 
eric Starr,  sent  out  by  the  American  Home  Missionary 
Society,  was  ordained  and  installed  November  16,  1850. 
He  was  a  very  talented,  tactful  and  peculiarly  genial 
man,  and  secured  the  building  of  a  manse  costing 
twelve  hundred  dollars.  Tradition  says  that  by  his 
tact  and  geniality  he  turned  from  their  purpose  a  mob 
who  had  come  to  hang  him  because  he  had  prayed  with 
a.  negro  previous  to  his  execution.  In  after  years  when 
he  was  financial  agent  for  Auburn  Theological  Semi- 
nary, he  was  one  of  the  only  two  of  the  many  official 
''beggars"  who  Avere  universally  Avelcomed  among  the 
churches  of  Western  New  York.  His  being  an  anti- 
slavery  man  shortened  his  stay  in  Weston.  Much  of 
the  time  since  the  church  has  not  had  a  regular  supply, 
but  the  following  haA^e  served  it  for  a  definite  period: 
AVilliam  M.  Kain,  E.  B.  SherAvood,  W.  L.  S.  Clark, 
James  M.  CraAvford,  W.  H.  Penharllegon,  Edmund  ^l. 
Palmer   and  John  H.  Aughey. 

A  lady,  AA^hose  name  we  do  not  feel  free  to  mention, 
Avrites  of  the  early  officers  and  members:  ''Mr.  Rod- 
ney Stephens  was  a  very  zealous  and  successful  Avorker 
in  Sunday  school,  and  Avas  loA^ed  by  all  the  children  as 
Avell  as  groAATi  folks.  In  1854  Joseph  V.  Parrot  Avas 
added  to  the  list  of  elders.  We  remember  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  George  T.  Hulse,  Mr.  AA^entAvorth,  ^Irs.  Sarah 
Parrot  and  ]\Iiss  Jane  McCurdy  as  earnest,  faithfu! 
members  of  the  early  church." 

Among  the  early  elders  A\'ere  R.  G.  Stevens,  J.  R. 
Tyler,  Rodney  Stephens,  John  H.  Carson,  J.  V.  Parrot, 
G  T.  Hulse,  John  S.  Maitland,  Andrew  Mitchell  and 
E.  G.  Heriot.  The  last  named  Avas  especially  active  in 
Sunday  school  work.  Messrs.  Carson  and  Alitcheli 
Avere  both  born  in  Ireland.  The  former  Avas  an  elder 
in  Tyrone  county  before  he  came  OA^er  in  1846.  Pie 
was  elected  an  elder  of  the  Weston  Church  about  1850 
and  served  till  his  death.  "For  years  he  Avas  a  col- 
porteur of  the  Tract  Society,  and  he  fell  dead  Novem- 
ber 14,  1878,  while  delivering  a  Bible  to  a  purchaser, 
Avith  the  half  uttered  sentence,  'I  must  do  all  the  good 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  25 

I  can  while — .'  "  Mr.  Mitchell,  ''a  faithful  worker  and 
a  pillar  in  the  church,"  became  an  elder  in  the  church 
in  1865,  and  died  in  Colorado,  aged  ninety-eio-ht.  The 
more  recent  elders  are:  A.  C.  Bell,  William  Ohlhausen, 
Thomas  C.  Ma<?:ers,  Oeoroe  Brill,  Selmon  AVallace  and 
F.  H.  Coujihlan. 


Rev.  J.  E.  Flow,  recently  Stated  Clerk  and  Treas- 
urer of  tlie  Upper  Missouri  Presbytery  and  pastor  of 
the  Bethel  Church,  has  kindly  furnished  the  followini;- 
data: 

''On  record  in  the  Session  Book  T  find,  viz.:  'Al. 
a  nieetini»-  of  the  iMissouri  Presbytery,  held  in  the  New- 
Providence  Church,  Lafayette  county,  September  24, 
1842,  it  appearing'  from  the  representation  of  the  rep- 
resentative from  the  Liberty  Church,  that  it  was  in- 
convenient for  the  whole  body  to  worship  at  the  same 
place;  whereupon  it  was*  resolved:  That  part  of  the 
church  north  and  east  of  Fishing'  river  is  hereby  or- 
ganized into  a  church,  the  name  of  which  shall  be  desig- 
nated by  themselves;  and  the  elders  elect,  living  within 
the  bounds  of  the  cono^regation,  be  the  acting  elders  oi 
the  church ;  and  that  elders  be  elected  and  ordained  in 
the  Church  of  Liberty.' 

"The  following  names  were  then  transferred  from 
the  Liberty  Church  to  the  Bethel  Church:  Elders 
Fortius  Clark,  John  Crossett,  William  Crossett,  Allen 
Denny  and  Riland  Shackelford.  Members — Charity 
Bane,  Nancy  Clark,  Artelia  Crossett,  Margaret  Cros- 
sett, INFary  Crossett,  Ann  Cummins,  Mary  Cummins, 
Ruth  Cummins,  Samuel  Cummins,  William  Cummins, 
Margaret  Davis,  Walter  Davis,  Emily  Denny,  George 
Dennv,  Hannah  Dennv,  Jane  Dennv,  IMatilda  Dennv, 
Nancy  E.  Finley,  'Rufus  AV.  Pinley,  John  M. 
Gray,  Robert  Henderson,  Isabella  Lynn,  Benjamin 
McClain,  Hannah  ]\lcllvain,  Isabella  McLane,  Jane 
]\IcNeeley,  John  McTaggart,  William  IMurray,  Mary 
Riley,  Sarah  Schoolfield,  Hannah  Scudder,  Joseph 
Scudder,  Allen  Shackelford,  IMartha  Stockton,  William 
Stockton  and  Jane  Welton. 


26  HISTORY    OP'    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

''J.  M.  C.  Inskiff  preached  for  them  the  first  year, 
and  J.  L.  Yantis  the  second  year.  They  had  preach- 
ing once  or  twice  per  month  by  various  ministers  as 
stated  supply  until,  on  October  15,  1903,  J.  E.  Flow  was 
ordained  and  installed  pastor  for  all  his  time.  Since 
then  the  church  has  built  a  manse  and  become  self- 
sustaining  and  supporting  all  the  causes. 

"The  present  (September,  1906)  elders  are:  George 
K.  Denny,  Albert  Hojt,  Edgar  Laffoon,  John  Morrov/, 
H.  C.  Scudder  and  William  Taylor.  Deacons:  John 
Crossett,  Fred  Holt  and  C.  Schoolfield.  Our  house  ox 
worship  is  situated  fifteen  miles  northeast  of  Liberty, 
six  northwest  of  Excelsior  Springs  and  four  east  of 
Kearney. 

"Among  the  elders  who  rendered  most  service  to 
the  church  we  might  mention  Caleb  Wilson,  in  the 
early  days;;  Sidney  Morrow,  of  more  recent  date,  and 
William  Taylor,  our  present  senior  elder.  L^ws-on 
and  Barnesville  churches  were  offshoots  of  Bethel." 

It  seems  that  though  the  Bethel  Church  did  not  be- 
come ecclesiastically  separate  from  the  Liberty  Church 
till  1842,  it  was  knoAvn  by  that  name  and  had  a  sort 
of  semi-independent  existence  earlier,  for  it  is  stated 
in  Dr.  J.  B.  Hill's  History  of  Kansas  City  Presbytery, 
I)age  46,  that  "Bethel,  Clay  county,"  Avas  supplied  by 
Dr.  Yantis  in  18'38. 


The  early  history  of  the  Cumberland  Ridge  (C.  P.) 
Church,  sometimes  called  Savannah,  is  involved  in  ob- 
scurity, there  being  no  early  records  extant.  Rev. 
Henrj^  Eppler,  who  was  present  at  the  organization  ot 
Platte  Presbytery  in  1845  (page  4),  removed  in  1837 
from  Clay  to  Andrew  county,  and  settled  on  Dillon 
creek,  where  was  born  his  son  Jonathan,  who  says: 
"He  organized  the  Cumberland  Ridge  Church  in  the 
Cumberland  Ridge  neighborhood,  between  1840  and 
1844.  Eli  Hughes,  Logan  Maxwell,  Martin  Sutton, 
John  B.  Thompson  and  Clinton  Young  were  some  of 
the  members  of  that  organization.     The  above  is   ail 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  27 

hearsay  evidence,  as  we  moved  to  Flaj^  Springs  in  the 
spring  of  1844."  The  fact  that  Mr.  Eppler  organized 
a  chnrcli  at  Flag  Springs  only  two  years  after  his  re- 
moval there  warrants  the  conclusion  that  he  probably 
organized  the  Cumberland  Ridge  Church  earlier  than 
1843,  the  usually  accepted  date.  It  was  doubtless  one 
of  the  four  churches  existing  at  the  formation  of  Platte 
Presbytery  in  1845.  One  of  these  four  churches  was 
named  Platte  and  that  may  have  been  the  original 
name  of  this  church. 

Mrs.  Priscilla  Roberts,  who  joined  the  church  about 
two  years  after  it  was  organized,  says  the  first  two 
elders  were  Elias  Hughes  and  Alex.  McDonald. 

J\liss.  Etta  Breit  Avrites:  ''The  Savannah  (C.  P.) 
Church  was  organized  about  1843  by  Rev.  H.  Eppler, 
on  the  site  of  the  old  Camping  Ground,  and  was  al- 
ways known  as  Cumberland  Ridge.  The  church  thrived 
for  several  years,  then  dwindled  down,  because  of 
deaths  and  removals,  till  in  1874  there  were  bat  few 
members  and  no  elder.  So  on  December  19,  1874,  it 
was  reorganized  by  Rev.  Leander  P.  Hayes,  with  forty- 
two  members,  of  whom  William  Deakins,  Eliza  H.  Maul, 
Sarah  E.  Maul,  William  M.  Maul,  Priscilla  Roberts, 
Polly  H.  Rodgers,  Mar.y  C.  Terhune,  Emily  A.  Young 
and  Mary  Young  were  old-time  members,  and  twenty- 
two  Avere  received  on  the  profession  of  their  faith. 
Elias  Hughes,  William  A.  Pyle  and  Joseph  Terhune 
were  elected  elders,  and  William  Ketring  and  Matthew^ 
Thompson,  trustees.  John  Erixson,  W.  Ketring  and 
John  Roberts  were  elected  deacons,  on  February  7, 
1875. 

''Since  that  date  the  following  have  been  elected 
elders:  W.  A.  Singleton,  Matthew  Thompson,  Charles 
MaxAvell,  James  Montgomery,  J.  F.  S.  Breit,  Benj.  U. 
BoAvman  and  Jacob  Nuckols;  J.  F.  S.  Breit.  Jacob 
Bowman,  John  W.  Fuller,  Aaron  Bowman,  Pearl  A. 
Breit  and  Edward  Miller  as  deacons.  The  church  has 
been  served  hv  the  following  ministers:  L.  F.  Hayes, 
F.  M.  :\riller,'  Martin  Huirhes,  Allen  Guthrie,  W.*  O. 
IT.  Perry,  D.  H.  IMurray,  H.   W.  Fisher,  J.  T.  Hood, 


28  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

Charles  Parsons,  AF.  P.  Eller,  H.  R.  Norris,  J.  H.  Nor- 
niaD,  D.  M.  Boyer  and  George  Engler. 

''Rev.  Mitcii.  Miller,  better  known  as  Old  Uncle 
Mitch.  ]\Iiller,  was  one  of  the  best  workers  and  will  be 
remembered  longer  than  any  other.  He  took  charge 
of  the  chnrch  soon  after  it  was  reorganized  and  was  pas- 
tor for  several  years.  Fie  nsed  his  influence  in  the 
building  of  the  chnrch,  and  after  he  ceased  being  pas- 
tor he  preached  ofi'  and  on  till  he  died,  about  eighteen 
years  ago.  Another  pastor,  faithful  to  this  church,  was 
Rev.  AV.  O.  PT.  Perry.  lie  was  helped  by  his  son, 
Arthur,  in  revival  meetings,  in  which  three  of  our 
household  were  converted.  All  the  people  regretted 
the  leaving  of  our  last  pastor,  Rev.  D.  M.  Boyer,  the 
President  of  the  Platte  School.  He  had  been  with  us 
almost  three  years  and  in  that  time  the  church  had 
made  great  progress.  It  was  through  his  influence 
that  we  are  having  these  big  tent  meetings  which  are 
bringing  the  hearts  of  so  many  into  touch  with  Christ. 

"The  church  building,  standing  among  large  and 
beautiful  trees  and  erected  in  1880,  is  located  on  the 
main  road  from  St.  Joseph  to  Savannah,  ten  miles 
north  of  the  former  and  three  and  a  half  miles  south  of 
the  latter,  and  an  eighth  of  a  mile  northeast  of  the 
Old  Camping  Ground  and  Cemetery." 


The  Mars  Hill  Church  was  organized  February  11, 
1843,  by  either  Rev.  T.  S.  Reeve  or  Rev.  E.  A.  Carson, 
and  was  disbanded  by  Lexington  Presbyters^  April  23, 
1853  (its  membership  being  reduced  to  three),  and  its 
records  ordered  transferred  to  Savannah.  It  was  lo- 
cated about  three  miles  from  Oregon,  eastward.  Prob- 
ably the  Oregon  Church  had  absorbed  the  most  of  its 
members.  In  1846  it  had  a  membership  of  eight,  and 
in  1850,  when  Rev.  John  Dunbar  was  its  pastor,  twenty- 
four  were  reported. 


The  data  for  the  Platte  City  Church  has  been  mostly 
furnished  by  Hon.  W.  M.  Paxton  (in  fragmentary  form) 
in  his  Annals  of  Platte  County  and  extracts  from  the 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  39 

records  of  the  church.  Mr.  Paxton  united  with  the 
church  a  few  months  after  its  org-anization,  and  served 
as  Clerk  of  Session  from  April,  18"51,  till  recently. 

It  was  organized  April  27,  1843,  by  Rev.  John  I\r. 
Fulton,  M.  D.  (who  was  its  pastor  till  his  death,  June 
3,  1851),  with  the  following  members:  William  B. 
Almond,  John  Clark,  M.  D.,  and  Ann,  his  wife;  John 
Y.  Cooper,  N.  H.  Hope,  S.  T.  S.  McCurdy,  Joseph  Pat- 
ton,  Allen  Sloan  and  Anna  M.,  his  wife,  and  James  E. 
Walker. 

'^n  October,  1847,  W.  B.  Almond,  Joseph  Clark,  J. 
Y.  Cooper,  Preston  Duiilap  and  A.  Sloan  are  elders.'' 
''Meetings  were  held  in  the  Old  Court  House;  after- 
wards in  the  Old  M.  E.  Church."  ''In  February,  1857, 
Bros.  J.  Gr.  Fackler  and  Robert  Scott  held  a  successful 
protracted  meeting."  In  1852,  the  congregation,  in 
connection  with  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church, 
erected  a  church  on  lot  6,  block  31,  "valued  at  $200 
and  given  by  S.  A.  Jack  and  M.  N.  Owen."  "The 
church  prospered  until  the  war  in  1860.  Nothing  was 
done  during  the  war.  The  house  was  burned  by  Fed- 
eral 'Redlegs,'  July  12,  1864."  "The  next  recorded 
meeting  of  the  Session  is  March  5,  1874,  with  Rev.  J.  G. 
Fackler,  moderator,  and  Allen  Sloan,  John  R.  Swain 
and  W.  M.  Paxton,  elders.  Several  joined  the  church." 
"In  1873  the  church  consisted  of  twenty-three  mem- 
bers and  is  said  to  have  reorganized  under  the  General 
Assembly  of  the  United  States."  In  1867  the  Method- 
ists and  Presbyterians  began  building  a  church  on  the 
old  site.  This  ^vas  dedicated  in  April,  1868.  The 
church  was  never  large,  but  was  very  influential,  espe- 
cially in  its  early  days  when  it  was  larg*ely  officered  by 
such  men  as  Judges  Almond  and  Dun  I  a  p.  No  com- 
plete list  of  elders  is  at  hand,  but  to  those  given  above, 
James  A.  Baldwin,  M.  D.,  and  John  T.  McRuer  san  be 
added.  No  recent  information  has  been  furnished,  but 
the  present  pastor  and  clerk  of  session  are  J,  M.  Camp- 
bell and  G.  K.  White  McGee. 

William  McClurg  Paxton  w^as  born  in  Mason 
county,  Kentucky,  March  2,  1819,  and  married  Marv 


30  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

Forman  October  1,  1840.  He  came  to  Platte  county 
in  1839,  and  since  that  time  his  acknowledged  lesra] 
talents  have  been  at  the  service  of  every  good  cause. 
Intensely  loyal,  he  was  between  two  fires  during  the 
civil  war.  Having  the  respect  and  confidence  of  his 
fellow  citizens,  he  has  been  honored  with  positions  of 
trust  and  responsibility,  as  that  of  Public  Administra- 
tor. As  an  ardent  temperance  man  he  has  been  of 
great  service  to  the  cause.  He  stands  most  prominent 
as  one  active  in  every  good  work.  At  times  he  has 
seen  dark  days  and  has  been  the  only  elder  in  the 
church,  but  has  never  given  up  during  the  darkest 
days.  The  infirmities  of  age  alone  have  retired  hira 
from  his  wonted  active  service. 

Allen  Sloan  Avas  bom  in  Shelby  county,  Kentucky, 
May  15,  1816,  and  died  April  16,^  1889.  He  came  to 
Indiana  in  1842,  and  two  years  later  settled  two  miles 
Avest  of  Platte  City.  He  was  a  just  and  upright  citi- 
zen and  a  zealous  Presbyterian.  He  always  loved  the 
little  church  he  had  helped  to  plant  at  Platte  City,  and 
over  which  he  was  a  ruling  elder  for  forty  years. 


Much  of  this  account  of  the  Clear  Creek  Church  is 
taken  from  the  Historical  Sketch,  prepared  by  Elder 
Farrington  B.  Staats  for  the  Semi-Centennial  Celebra- 
tion of  the  organization  of  that  church. 

The  organization  was  commenced  Saturday,  August 
12,  1843,  by  Rev.  Moses  W.  Henderson,  at  the  residence 
of  Mr.  William  Brown,  near  Clear  Creek,  Daviess 
county.  After  a  sermon  the  following  persons,  James 
Arter,  Phoebe  Arter,  James  K.  Brown,  Sarah  Brown, 
William  Brown,  Sarah  Brown  and  Mrs.  Margaret  C. 
Price,  presented  their  certificates  of  membership  in 
good  and  regular  standing,  and  were  organized  into 
the  Clear  Cl*eek  Presbyterian  Church.  J.  Arter  and  J. 
K.  Brown  were  duly  elected  ruling  elders.  The  next 
day  the  organization  was  completed  by  the  ordination 
and  installation  of  the  elders,  after  which  a  meeting 
of  the  session  was  held,  which  received  into  com- 
munion and  fellowship  James  Ward  and  Elizabeth,  his 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  31 

wife,  from  Mt.  Pleasant  Cliurcli;  ]\Irs.  Nancy  Hagins. 
from  the  Presbj^terian  Cliurch  of  Richmond,  and  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Francis  Hudgrins,  from  the  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Lawrenceburg,  Ky. 

On  March  10,  1844,  Rev.  T.  S.  Reeve  presiding,  the 
session  elected  J.  K.  Brown  as  clerk  and  chose  him  to 
represent  the  church  at  the  meeting  of  Lexington  Pres- 
bytery, to  be  held  in  Weston  in  May.  On  Sabbath. 
July  20,  1845,  the  first  baptisms  took  place — six  chil- 
dren of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Miller  and  three  of  Mr. 
John  and  Mrs.  Sarah  Ann  McClurg.  On  October  19, 
1845,  the  six  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Price  were  bap- 
tized by  Rev.  T.  Morgan. 

James  Harper  was  elected  elder  October  15,  1848, 
and  William  Allen,  September  23,  1855.  There  was  no 
meeting  of  session  from  the  last  date  till  April  28, 
1871 ;  first,  because  of  the  lack  of  a  pastor,  and  later 
because  of  the  civil  war.  April  29,  1871,  the  church 
resolved  to  change  its  name  to  Bethel  and  "to  under- 
take the  erection  of  a  house  of  worship  on  the  lot  do- 
nated by  John  H.  McNeill  for  that  purpose."  This 
house  was  dedicated  March  24,  1872.  Before  it  was 
built  the  services  were  held  at  private  houses,  notably 
those  of  Messrs.  J.  Arter,  J.  K.  Bro^vn,  W.  M.  Brown, 
J.  McClurg  and  R.  Miller. 

The  chnrch  has  been  served  by  Revs.  M.  W.  Hen- 
derson, T.  S.  Reeve,  T.  Morgan,  E.  B.  Sherwood,  J.  A. 
Pinlvcrton,  W  Kendrick,  J.  Gillespie,  W.  Asdale,  G.  A. 
McKmlay,  E.  M.  Palmer,  J.  Kirkwood,  C.  McCain,  D. 
C.  Davies  and  N.  McA.  Tatnm.  Mr.  Henderson,  a 
most  lovely  young  man,  died  very  soon  after  the  or- 
ganization. 

The  elders,  in  addition  to  those  named  above,  are: 
A.  M.  Barrett,  Samuel  D.  B.  Poage,  S.  L.  Doty,  P.  IT. 
Hawkins,  Reuben  Wetzel,  F.  B.  Staats  and  Wm.  C. 
Poage. 

Bethel  and  Hopewell  (C.  P.)  churches  were  happily 
united  August  26,  1906. 


33  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

Noveniber  ID,  1843,  a  church  wa.s  orsraiiized  at  the 
home  of  Francis  Wilkinson,  on"  Castile  Creek,  near 
where  Stewartsville  now  stands,  b}^  Rev.  Lewis  Thomj)- 
son,  with  the  following  members:  Alonzo  Beck,  James 
G-  Clavwater,  James  Gra^rg,  ^Irs.  Jane  Gragg,  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Venable,  Geo.  C.  Venable,  John  Venable, 
Joseph  Venable,  Mrs.  Mary  Venable ,  JNIrs.  ]Mary 
Walker,  Mrs.  E.  C.  Wilkinson,  Miss  Fannie  Wilkinson 
and  Frank  Wilkinson.  Joseph  Venable  and  Frank 
Wilkinson  were  elected  elders. 

The  following'  ministers  served  they  church:  Tj. 
Thompson,  William  Dixon,  Robert  Scott,  Chas.  Stew- 
art, R.  H.  Allen,  Robert  Canfield,  C.  A.  W.ylie.  A.  P. 
Forman,  H.  P.  S.  Willis,  H.  F.  Albright,  David  Coulter, 
J.  P.  Forman,  C.  W^.  Price,  J.  A.  D.  Hughes  and  J.  M. 
Campbell.  The  full  list  of  elders  is:  Frank  Wilson, 
Joseph  Venable,  Robert  Stewart,  Robert  Clark,  A.  W. 
Pickett,  Joseph  Clark,  W.  C.  Wilkinson,  J.  L.  Wylie, 
•].  D.  McCroskey,  John  Sanders,  F.  M.  Dixon  and  W.  A. 
Wylie;  and  of  deacons:  Geo.  Venable,  Samuel  Clark, 
John  Jones,  J.  II.  Wylie,  Thos.  Coe  and  William  Wil- 
kinson. 

The  name  of  the  church  was  changed  from  Castile 
to  Stewartsville,  September  3,  1870.  Elder  J.  L.  Wylie, 
clerk  of  session,  kindly  furnished  the  above  informa- 
tion. 


"The  Richmond  Presbyterian  Church  (0.  S.)  was 
(organized  on  the  first  Saturday  of  February,  1843,  by 
Rev.  Drs.  J.  L.  Yantis  and  LcAvis  W.  Green,  with 
twenty-six  members."  "In  November,  1869,  a  brick 
church  costing  $10,000  was  dedicated  by  Rev.  Dr.  Na- 
than Ij.  Rice.  This  was  destroyed  by  a  cyclone,  June  1, 
1878,  and  no  services  were  held  till  thefall  of  1880." 

The  above  was  taken  from  a  local  history  in  the 
Kansas  City  Library-. 

This  very  early  and  interesting  church  is  not  among 
the  "defunct,"  but  we  have  failed  to  get  fuller  infor- 
mation, which  has  been  diligently  sought. 

The  present  pastor  and  clerk  of  session  are  J.  A. 
Gray  and  R.  B.  Kirkpatrick. 


HISTORY    OF    PLx\TTE    PRESBYTERY.  33 


1844-8, 

In  1843,  the  year  in  which  St.  Joseph — previously 
known  as  Eobidoux  Landing — was  laid  out,  Rev.  Tap- 
ping S.  Reeve  preached  the  first  sermon  ever  delivered 
there,  in  a  log  tavern  kept  by  a  Mr.  Beattie,  ''corner 
of  Main  and  Jule,  where  the  Occidental  Hotel  now 
stands."  In  the  spring  of  1844  he  began  building  a 
log  church  on  a  lot  owned  by  George  Brubaker,  "on 
Francis,  about  150  feet  east  of  where  the  I'acific  House 
now  stands."  Mr.  William  Langston  donated  the  logs 
(in  the  tree).  His  timber  was  on  a  bottom  about  a 
mile  above  town.  Parson  Reeve,  shouldering  an  axe, 
went  with  his  helpers,  cut  down  the  first  tree  himself, 
and  Avorked  with  them  day  by  day  amidst  the  clouds  of 
mosquitoes,  at  noon  bringing  their  dinner,  which  Mrs. 
Reeve  had  prepared  The  building  was  finished  ready 
for  occupancy  in  the  Avinter  of  1844-5.  "It  was  of 
hewn  logs,  twenty  by  forty  feet.  D.  Hardy,  George 
and  John  Brubaker,  Israel  Landis  and  others  helped 
to  build  it.  It  was  used  for  some  time  conjointly  as 
church  and  school  house.  Mrs.  Israel  Landis  was  the 
first  teacher,  the  school  being  known  as  'St.  Joseph 
Female  Academy.'  "  In  1844  a  very  successful  Union 
Sunday  School  was  organized,  towards  the  support  of 
which  Mr.  Joseph  Robidoux  contributed  ten  dollars, 
and  of  which  Mrs.  Reeve  was  the  leading  spirit. 

September  15,  1844,  a  church  was  organized  con- 
sisting of  Abraham  Brubaker,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Bru- 
baker, George  Brubaker,  Miss  Julia  A.  Brubaker,  Mrs. 
Harriet  Castle,  Mrs.  Nancy  McMunn,  Mrs.  Jane  Mc- 
Munn,  Mrs.  Laura  Postel,  Mrs.  Jane  E.  Reeve  and 
George  A.  Smith.  George  Brubaker  was  elected  rul- 
ing elder.  In  1847  a  brick  building,  fifty  by  sixty  feet, 
was  begun  at  the  corner  of  Fourth  and  Francis.  It 
was  completed  in  the  winter  of  1849-50.  Mr.  Reeve  re- 
mained with  the  church  till  1855.  Revs.  Fred  R.  Gallar 
ger  and  Franklin  E.  Sheldon  followed  him. 

The  excitement  previous  to  and  during  the  civil 
war,  which  affected  this  whole  section  sn  disastrously, 

—3 


34  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

caused  the  church  to  die  out  gradually.  But  we  have 
no  further  information;  as  Lexington  Presbytery,  with 
which  it  was  connected,  furnished  the  General  As- 
sembly with  no  reports  between  1858  and  1863.  Elder 
Israel  Landis,  who  held  on  till  the  last,  after  giving 
letters  of  dismission  to  two  applicants,  said:  ''That 
leaves  me  as  the  last  member  of  the  chnrch."  The 
church  building,  on  which  the  Board  of  Church  Erec- 
tion had  a  mortgage,  was  sold,  and  was  occupied  by  a 
German  congregation  till  quite  recently. 

''The  only  sense  in  which  Westminster  succeeded 
the  First  Church  was  that  it  represented  the  same 
opinions  and  had  its  pulpit  Bible."  Therefore  the 
histon^  of  the  former  is  given  separately  and  in  its 
chronolooical  order. 


From  the  records  of  the  Parkville  Church,  which 
are  complete,  and  remarkably  and  ideally  full  historic- 
alh',  we  gather  the  following : 

In  November,  1842,  Rev.  Edmund  Wright,  then  of 
Weston,  preached  the  first  Presbyterian  sermon  in 
Parkville  (which  was  laid  out  and  named  in  1844).  A 
permanent  Sabbath  school  was  established  in  1843,  and 
a  temporary  union  was  had  with  the  ]\Iethodists,  it  be- 
ing thought  not  expedient  to  organize  a  church  at  that 
time.  In  this  year  Licentiate  Charles  Lord,  a  mission- 
ary of  the  American  Home  ]\Iissionarv  Society,  settled 
at  Independence,  gave  a  part  of  his  time  to  Park\dlle. 
April  27,  1845,  Messrs.  Lord  and  Wright  organized  a 
cTiurch  with  the  following  members :  Alfred  and  Mary 
Painick,  Geors:e  S.  Park,  Harriet  Parsons  and  Romulus 
R.  and  Mary^A.  Stephens.  G.  S.  Park  and  R.  R. 
Stephens  were  elected  elders. 

December  3,  1845,  Licentiate  Charles  D.  Herbert,  a 
very  devoted  missionary  of  the  American  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society  and  late  of  Bangor  Theological  Semi- 
nary came  to  Parkville.  April  26,  1846,  he  was  or- 
dained and  installed  pastor  of  the  church,  at  a  "pro 
re  nata"  meeting  of  Lexington  Presbytery  held  "under 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  35 

the  roof  of  the  new  warehouse  of  ]\Iessrs.  Park  &  Par- 
sons."  Some  extracts  from  a  letter  of  Mr.  Herbert's, 
written  to  Dr.  Timothy  Hill,  soon  after  his  arrival,  may 
be  of  interest.  "After  they  decided"  (in  St.  Louis) 
''that  I  should  go  to  the  Platte  country,  Bro.  Lewis  and 
myself  put  off  together  by  stage  early  Monday  morn- 
ing for  Independence.  The  first  two  days,  being  on  the 
great  thoroughfare  from  the  metropolis  to  the  capital 
of  the  greatest  state  in  the  Union,  we  might  have  ex- 
pected a  good  road,  but  it  was  just  a  path  cut  out  over 
the  hills,  without  having  even  a  dollar  of  work  wrought 
upon  it.  Sometimes  it  wasi  so  bad  that  it  would  be 
hard  to  tell  where  the  road  was.  Every  man  went  the 
best  way  he  could.  We  walked  much  and  had  to  get 
out  every  little  way  and  get  the  stage  through  some 
deep  ravine.  The  public  houses  were  of  a  piece.  The 
first  night  we  stopped  at  a  house  that  had  no  window 
and  was  about  eighteen  feet  square,  and  there  we  were, 
some  fourteen  of  us,  and  only  two  beds  among  us!  As 
beautiful  and  as  fertile  a  country  as  the  sun  ever  shone 
upon,  and  yet  men  will  live  fifteen  years  like  dogs  in 
a  kennel — black,  white  and  gray.  After  we  passed 
Jefi'erson  we  found  things  better,  and  it  was  a  most 
splendid  country  with  its  timber  and  open  lands  all 
combined  together."  ''There  are  but  few  Presbyteri- 
ans here,  and  no  preaching  at  all.  Mr.  Park,  the  pro- 
prietor, is  from  New  England  and  is  very  anxious  to 
have  a  minister  permanently  located.  He  and  his 
brother-in-law,  Mr.  Parsons,  will  supply  all  my  imme- 
diate wants  of  board,  horse,  etc.  I  find  this  place 
where  T  am  to  board  to  be  one  of  the  pleasantest  places 
in  all  the  Platte.  Yes,  will  you  believe  it,  it  is  in  a  cor- 
ner of  the  State  of  Maine  !  Mr.  Parsons  is  from  Maine. 
Mrs.  Parsons  is  the  very  life  of  the  church." 

Mr.  Herbert  left  in  January,  1848,  and  in  March, 
1849,  when  there  were  only  three  members,  Mr.  Park 
being  the  elder,  Rev.  George  S.  Woodward,  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, came,  dividing  his  time  equally  with  Weston, 
where  he  remained  till  November,  when  "he  moved  to 
Parkville  and  took  up  his  residence  with  Mr.  Park,  who 
kindly  boarded  him  and  his  wife  during  the  winter 
without  charge."     ]Mr.  Woodward  gives  a  glimpse  of 


36  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

the  simplicity  of  those  days  when,  in  describing  the 
first  communion,  he  says:  "Our  good  elder  came  to  the 
service,  clad  in  his  red  blanket  overcoat  with  black 
fringe,  a  bottle  of  wine  in  one  pocket  and  two  blue 
tumblers  in  the  other,  with  the  bread  wrapped  in  a 
paper."  January  12,  1850,  eleven  Avere  received,  four 
of  them  from  Cumberland  churches. 

January'  15,  1850,  the  following  Board  of  Trustees 
was  elected:  G.  S.  Woodward,  Chairman;  Geo.  S.  Park, 
Roderick  G.  Stevens,  Thos.  Aspling,  Mason  T.  Summers, 
William  P.  Burney  and  James  Bowie.  Major  Levi 
Hinkle  and  Samuel  Akin,  Jr.,  were  added  to  the  Board 
soon  after.  In  1851  a  movement  was  made  to  build  a 
church  and  parsonage.  The  latter  was  of  brick.  The 
former  was  of  stone  and  was  dedicated  December  12. 
1852.  ''The  whole  expense  of  the  church  as  finished 
and  furnished  for  use  was  $2,544.70."  Mr.  Park  gave 
$500  of  this,  and  he  raised  nearly  $800  of  it  from  friends 
in  Maine,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania  and  Delaware,  on 
a  trip  East.  In  June,  1855,  the  trustees  received  from 
Mr.  Park  a  deed  for  the  four  lots  on  which  the  church 
and  parsonage  stood. 

October  4,  1858,  the  church  w^as  received  under  the 
care  of  Platte  Presbytery  (page  2),  and  its  records 
were  examined  and  approved  by  that  Presbytery  at 
Platte  City  in  April,  1861.  Mr.  Woodward  remained 
the  beloved  pastor  till  the  church  was  scattered  by  the 
Civil  War  in  1861.  After  that  the  Sessional  Records 
give  December  13,  1867,  as  the  date  of  the  first  meeting 
of  the  Session,  Rev.  John  IM.  IMoore,  having  come  by 
invitation  and  commenced  his  labors  the  previous  June. 
The  church  had  a  slow  and  normal  growth  from  that 
time  till  the  coming  of  Rev.  Dr.  John  A.  McAfee  and 
his  "Family" — Park  College  in  embryo — in  the  spring 
of  1875,  since  which  time  its  size  and  influence  have 
continually  increased.  It  has  carried  on  Sabbath  School 
and  evangelistic  work  very  largely  in  the  surrounding 
neighborhoods.  The  large  part  which  its  members  have 
taken  in  home  and  foreign  missionary  work  will  be 
spoken  of  later  in  the  notice  of  Park  College. 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  37 

Rev.  John  ]\Ioore  has  been  followed  as  pastor  by  E. 
B.  Sherwood,  J.  A.  McAfee,  Edmund  :\I.  Palmer,  E.  P. 
Foster,  ^Y.  F.  Matthews,  Lapsley  A.  McAfee,  Cleland 
B.  McAfee,  J.  Aikin  Smith  and  Silas  Evans. 

The  roll  of  elders  has  been  kindly  furnished  by  the 
successor  of  the  lamented  Prof.  Charles  F.  Winchell, 
Prof.  John  AV.  Stephens,  who  has  served  most  efficiently 
as  Clerk  of  Session  for  twelve  years,  and  also  as  Sun- 
da  v  School  Superintendent  for  the  last  ten  years.  They 
are:  Geo.  S.  Park,  R.  R.  Stephens,  W.  P.  Burney,  L. 
Hinkle,  John  H.  Bueneman,  W.  G.  Gano,  Thos.  D.  Rob- 
erts, D.  S.  Eccles,  W.  C.  Day,  D.  M.  Wyncoop,  W.  E. 
Voss,  Robert  AVatt,  B.  B.  Holter,  Fred  Kahm,  Chas.  W, 
Blake,  Reuben  BroAvn,  Prof.  AVilliani  S.  Nelson,  Prof. 
Lee  S.  Pratt,  Robert  Irwin,  David  R.  Todd,  Prof.  Ed- 
ward Fitch,  J.  N.  Covert,  H.  H.  Winchell,  Prof.  AYilliam 
H.  Tibbals,  Prof.  George  A.  Knapp,  Pres.  L.  M.  McAfee, 
AVilliam  Y.  Jones,  Prof.  Arthur  L.  Wolfe,  Howard  B 
McAfee,  Prof.  Geo.  H.  Minor,  Prof.  Chas.  F.  Winchell, 
Prof.  Arthur  M.  Mattoon,  Jesse  Bell,  John  Creighton, 
Prof.  J.  W.  Stephens,  Prof.  Merlin  C.  Findlay,  William 
M.  Dager,  Arthur  ]\I.  Sharrocks,  Prof.  Thos.  G.  Burt, 
Henry  A.  Kehn,  James  D.  Dean,  James  Brown,  Geo.  H. 
Venard,  AVilliam  L.  Palmer,  Prof.  John  H.  Lawrence, 
E.  Allen  Prouse,  Robert  Buchanan,  J.  Will  Harris, 
Frank  R.  Zugg,  James  S.  Bailey,  Fred  Chase,  Harlan 
M.  Roberts,  Geo.  M.  Johnston,  Prof.  W.  H.  Cooper,  J. 
Ernest  McAfee,  Benj.  L.  Myers,  E.  B.  Stevenson,  James 
W.  Chapman,  Prof.  R.  V.  Magers,  Prof.  Howard  A. 
Dean,  Grant  Merchant,  Prof.  John  W.  Hornbeak,  David 
J.  Orr  and  Dr.  C.  S.  Benham. 

The  fact  that  the  Session  has,  for  several  years,  in- 
cluded twelve  members  accounts  in  part  for  the  large 
number.  The  long-time  custom  of  ahvays  having  in 
the  number  one  advanced  student,  who  shall  thus  get 
one  3^ear's  experience  of  Session  work,  counts  also. 
Many  of  these  student  elders  are  now  in  the  ministry 
or  missionary  w^ork,  some  as  phj^sicians. 

For  many  years  the  Sabbath  School  has  been  very 
large,  being  attended  by  all  the  students  connected 
with  "The  Familv,"  as  well  as  the  most  of  the  children 


38  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

of  the  village.  It  would  be  inexcusable  not  to  .speak, 
in  this  connection,  of  the  long-time  services  of  Elder  H. 
B.  McAfee.  Ofticially  and  non-officially,  he  has  had 
the  charge  of  the  primary  department  for  over  twenty 
years,  and  the  children  delight  in  him  as  much  as  he 
does  in  them.  His  unwearied  labors  in  encouraging, 
developing  and  uplifting  the  very  important  colored 
Sabbath  School  of  the  place  are  much  appreciated. 


Most  that  relates  to  the  Flag  Springs  Church  has 
been  obtained  from  Mr.  Jonathan  Eppler  and  Elder 
James  R.  Dunn,  Clerk  of  Session  for  twenty-two  years. 
The  former  says:  ''The  organization  took  place  in  1846, 
at  the  home  of  Washington  Means,  but  this  is  only  the 
dim  memory  of  childhood.  Clayton  Boyles,  Jehiel 
Boyles,  Fletcher  Cowen,  John  Francis,  James  Irv:in, 
Samuel  Irwin,  Clemens  Means,  Clarence  Means,  Harry 
Memahan,  James  Memahan,  Washington  Memahan, 
William  Memahan,  Geo.  Taylor,  Joel  Taylor,  John  B. 
Thompson  and  their  wives  were  members  of  that  early 
church.  Newton  Cowen,  Adam  Means  and  Ahija 
Means  were  the  first  elders.  Later  on,  between  1850 
and  1860,  John  A.  Clark  and  Thompson  Barnette  were 
elected. ' ' 

This  church,  like  so  many  others,  ran  down  during 
the  Civil  War.  Elder  Dunn,  who  has  been  a  member 
since  18'85,  says:  "This  church,  organized  in  1846,  was 
the  result  of  a  campmeeting  held  by  Rev.  Henry  Eppler 
near  the  Kirtley  residence,  close  to  the  Means  neigh- 
borhood, about  two  and  a  half  miles  south  of  Flag 
Springs.  They  met,  held  meetings  in  a  log  school  house 
about  a  mile  south  of  the  village,  on  the  farm  of  Geo. 
Boyles,  near  Avhere  the  old  church  was  built. 

"The  congregation  was  reorganized,  I  think,  in 
1873,  by  Rev.  Isaac  Chivington,  with  T.  Barnett,  Joseph 
Laning  and  T.  C.  Simpson  as  elders,  and  Jasper  A. 
Dungaii  as  clerk.  Eli  Knappenber*>,'eiv  who  came  here 
about  Po^ty  years  ago  and  who  has  been  the  mainstay 
of  the  congrea-ation  and  the  Sabbath  School  foi:  the 
last  thirty  years,  was  elected  elder  in  the  early  seven- 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  39 

ties,  and  Geo.  Roclecker,  Joseph  M.  Glick,  Echvard  R. 
Speaker  and  James  R.  Dunn  since  then.  Since  1873 
the  pastors  have  been:  I.  Chivin^ton,  C.  B.  Powers,  J. 
H.  Tharp,  J.  Froman,  A.  S.  McDaniel,  C.  E.  Wright,  W. 
E.  Vanhorn  and  W.  0.  H.  Perry  twice. 

' '  The  old  church  house  was  torn  down  in  the  w^inter 
of  1872-3  and  rebuilt  in  the  village,  and  the  Methodists 
"^\"ere  given  a  half  interest  in  it  for  helping  to  rebuild  it. 

''Mrs.  Hannah  B.  Eppler,  E.  A.  Dungan,  Aunt  Mary 
Knappenbera-er  and  Mrs.  Ailsie  Eppler  IMunroe  were 
among  the  'IMothers  in  Israel.' 

''By  deaths,  removals  and  other  causes  the  congre- 
gation has  dwindled  from  a  hundred  communicants 
down  to  six  or  seven  members  at  present,  but  remem- 
ber, and  so  state  in  your  History  that  we  are  still  loyal 
Cumberland  Presbyterians." 

The  disappearance  of  the  earliest  records  and  the 
burnino-  of  the  later  ones  account  for  the  incomplete- 
ness of  the  above. 


We  are  indebted  to  Elder  Ralph  K.  Denny,  Clerk  of 
Session  for  twenty-two  years,  for  the  following  extracts 
from  the  records  and  for  the  sketch  of  "Father 
Denny:" 

"According  to  previous  appointment,  a  congrega- 
tion assembled  in  a  grove  on  Crooked  River,  in  Clinton 
county,  on  Saturday,  June  14,  1847,  and  after  a  sermon 
by  Rev,  Robert  Scott,  the  committee  appointed  by  the 
Upper  Missouri  Presbytery  for  the  purpose  of  organiz- 
ing a  church,  he  proceeded  to  discharge  that  duty.  The 
names  of  those  present  prepared  to  enter  into  the  orga- 
nization were  enrolled  and  are  as  follows:  David 
Cooper,  Rachel  Cooper,  John  Crossett,  Geo.  Denny, 
Jane  Denny,  Newton  Denny,  J.  B.  Green,  Benj.  P. 
McClain,  Eliz.  McClain,  Kizzie  McNeeley,  James 
Riley,  Margaret  Riley  and  Mary  Riley.  The  con- 
gregation then  proceeded  to  the  election  of  ruling 
elders.        B.    F.    McClain    and   D.    Cooper   were    duly 


40  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

elected.     Crooked  River  was  the  name  chosen  by  which 
they  Xvished  to  be  known." 

Veiy  soon  after  the  church  w^as  organized  a  con- 
gregational meeting  was  called  at  Avhich  the  money 
was  raised  to  purchase  forty  acres,  "being  the  north- 
east quarter  of  the  southeast  quarter  of  section  eleven, 
in  toAvnship  fifty-four,  range  thirty."  On  this  a  churc'i 
was  soon  erected,  and  later  a  manse. 

The  following  extracts  from  the  records  are  given 
because  such  items  are  of  very  unusual  occurrence : 
*' November  25,  1849,  Armilda,  a  colored  woman,  the 
property  of  D.  F.  Green,  was  received  with  others." 
*'July  20,  1851,  Nathan  and  Charity,  persons  of  color, 
were  received  as  members." 

Like  most  others,  this  church  suffered  greatly  dur- 
ing the  Civil  War.  Its  name  was  changed  to  Barnes- 
ville  in  the  early  seventies. 

Among  the  pastors  of  this  church  have  been :  J.  W. 
Canfield,  John  P.  Fox,  James  C.  Barnes,  William  Dick- 
son, Charles  Price,  J.  P.  Foreman,  Edward  M.  Yantis 
and  J.  W.  IMcClure. 

The  original  elders  have  been  followed  by  D.  Find- 
lay  Green,  Fortius  Clark,  Cyrus  E.  Green,  James  Mor- 
row, Thos.  Paisley,  Erasmus  Estill,  James  B.  Green, 
Henry  B.  Moberly,  Geo.  B.  Tuggle,  R.  K.  Denny  and 
Chris.  W.  Stratford. 

Mr.  George  Denm^ — "Father  Denny,"  as  we  used 
to  love  to  call  him — was  bom  February  15,  1784,  in 
Guilford  count3%  N.  C,  in  the  palmy  days  of  Georire 
Washington.  His  ancestors  were  part  of  the  Presby- 
terian colony  which  settled  in  that  county  and  organ- 
ized the  Buffalo  Presbyterian  Church,  noted  as  being 
for  over  sixty  years  under  the  pastoral  care  of  Rev. 
David  Caldwell,  D.  D.,  who  was  also  an  M.  D.  and  a 
surgeon  in  General  George  Washington's  army.  Mr. 
Denny  was  married  January  14,  1808,  to  Jane  Kenady, 
who  died  January  10,  1866,  in  the  seventy-seventli 
year   of   her   age.     Shortly   after   this   marriage   they 


HISTORY    OP   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  41 

united  with  the  Buffalo  Church.  He  emigrated  to 
Missouri  with  his  family  in  1835,  settling  on  a  farm  in 
Clay  county.  He  moved  thence  two  years  later  to  a 
place  near  Barnesviile,  and,  erecting  a  log  house,  opened 
up  the  farm  on  which  he  lived  till  his  death.  March  34, 
1879,  in  the  ninetj^-sixth  year  of  his  age. 

He  greatly  prized  the  privileges  of  the  sanctuary. 
That  front  seat  of  his  had  to  be  occupied  even  though 
the  ninety  odd  years  old  man  (ivho  never  needed  or 
used  a  cane)  had  to  walk  five  miles  to  fill  it,  which  he 
did  on  several  occasions.  Through  nearly  a  century 
his  quiet,  happy  and  useful  life  flowed  on.  Almost  to 
the  last  he  was  free  from  the  infirmities  of  age,  his 
form  was  erect  and  his  eye  had  but  little  of  the  dimness 
of  years.  Always  bright,  sunny  and  cheerful,  he  waited 
calmly  for  his  change,  and  passed  away  sweetly  trust- 
ing in  the  dear  Savior  whom  he  had  served  so  long. 

''None  knew  him  but  to  love  him ; 
None  named  him  but  to  praise." 


42  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 


1849-1854. 

The  following  account  of  the  Lawson  Church  was 
furnished  in  July,  1907,  by  the  pastor.  Rev.  J.  B.  Car- 
penter : 

"The  Lawson  Church  is  a  continuation  of  New 
Salem  church,  which  Avas  organized  June  18,  1849,  at 
the  request  of  members  of  the  Liberty,  Richmond  «fc 
Bethel  churches,  residing  on  or  near  Crooked  River 
in  Ray  county.  Revs.  Richard  H.  Allen  and  Robert 
Scott  were  sent  by  the  Presbytery  of  Upper  Missouri 
to  perfect  the  organization.  The  new  church  building 
v/as  built  jointly  with  the  Kelly ites  (now  known  as 
the  Christian  Union  denomination)  about  five  miles 
east  of  Lawson. 

"For  some  cause  worship  ceased  till  '62  or '63.  when 
it  was  resumed  at  the  Jefferson  school  house  just 
south  of  where  Lawson  now^  stands.  In  '70  the  town 
of  Ijawson  was  established,  and  the  Methodists  and 
Presbyterians  joined  together  in  building  the  first 
house  of  worship.  In  '88  the  former  built  a  new  church, 
selling  out  their  interests  in  the  property  to  the  latter, 
who  remodeled  the  old  house  and  continued  to  use  it 
until  last  iVugust  when  it  was  torn  down  to  make  way 
for  the  new  building,  costing  about  $5,000.00,  which 
was  dedicated  free  of  debt  on  May  26,  1907. 

"The  first  ruling  elders  in  New  Salem  were 
Jedediah  Smith  and  William  Murray.  I  think  the 
pastors  are  not  all  enumerated  in  the  following  list, 
but  it  is  the  most  complete  catalog  of  them  that  I  have 
been  able  to  compile  from  the  records :  R.  H.  Allen, 
J.  W.  Canfield,  David  Coulter,  J.  M.  Scott,  Jas.  Mor- 
ton, E.  M.  Yantis,  J.  G.  Fackler,  D.  D.  Evander 
McNair,  H.  B.  Boude.  D.  D.,  R.  W.  Wilson,  G.  T. 
Thompson,  D.  D.,  Joshua  Barbee,  J.  S.  Sibley,  H.  M. 
Kerr,  R.  A.  Coolr,  R.  Brown,  J.  D.  INIassey  and  J.  B. 
Carpenter.'* 

jMore  recently,  James  M.  Morrow,  Clerk  of  Session, 
gives  this  additional   information:     "The  old  records 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRE-SBYTERY.  43 

are  not  to  be  found.  Joseph  A.  Smith  succeeded  his 
father,  Jedediah.  When  the  church  moved  from  Jef- 
ferson school  house  to  Lawson,  S.  D.  Wharton  and  J. 
M.  Morrow  were  elected  elders;  and  Ambrose  Griffitli, 
later." 

The  Presbyterian  Cliurch  of  Oregon  was  organized 
on  Saturday,  January  1.  1853,  by  Revs.  William  Ham- 
ilton and  S.  N.  Irwin,  members  of  the  Presbytery  of 
Nebraska  and  missionaries  to  the  Iowa  and  Sac  Indians, 
in  the  old  court  house,  with  ten  members:  Samuel 
Dunn,  Margaret  Jane  Dunn,  Robert  G.  Emmerson, 
Jane  Emmerson,  Joseph  Evans,  Ilila  Evans,  John 
Meyer,  Sarah  F.  Meyer,  Plenry  W.  Peter  and  Jane 
Peter.  John  IMeyer  and  Dr.  II.  W.  Peter  were  elected 
elders. 

The  first  Presbyterian  preaching  in  Oregon  was 
between  1840  and  18i5,  by  Rev.  E.  A.  Carson.  On  one 
occasion  here  in  Oregon  there  being  no  convenient  or 
suitable  place  for  a  public  service;  by  permission  of 
the  owners,  he  held  religious  services  in  a  saloon.  It 
was  the  same  drinking  place  that  was  afterwards 
struck  by  lightning  and  in  which  several  persons  lost 
their  lives  in  the  flames  of  the  burning  liquid  and 
timbers,  the  liquor  being  set  on  fire  by  the  lightning. 

A  very  neat  brick  church,  the  first  in  Oregon,  was 
erected  in  1853  at  a  cost  of  $4,000,  without  any  aid 
from  the  Board  of  Church  Erection.  It  has  been  in 
ase  ever  since,  its  seating  capacity  having  been  raised 
to  400  by  an  addition.  There  is  a  comfortable  manse  of 
seven  rooms;  also  a  neat  frame  church,  seating  about 
250,  for  the  Woodville  auxiliary  congregation,  about 
three  miles  east.  Services  are  held  in  both  churches 
every  Sabbath. 

The  church  has  been  served  by  Revs.  W.  R.  Fulton, 
C.  McCain.  N.  H.  Smith,  W.  'm.  Cummins,  James 
Lafferty,  J.  S.  IMcClung,  George  Miller,  W.  E.  William- 
son, T.  D.  Roberts,  PI.  A.  Sawyers,  James  McFarland 
and  James  A.  Walton. 

The  elders  who  have  served  the  church  are  John 
Meyer,  Dr.  H.  W.  Peter,  Francis  Irwin,  William  Zook, 


44  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

James  L.  Allen,  Gexyrge  P.  Tjiickhardt,  James  Scott, 
Geo.  Anderson,  James  A.  Keeves,  George  Tritt,  Ro?j- 
ert  Montgomery,  John  N.  ^Menifee,  Joshua  D.  Tritt, 
AYilliam  A.  Kleinpeter,  Nicholas  F.  Murray,  Charles 
Kurtz,  Alexander  Van  Buskirk,  Thosi.  L.  Price,  Silas 
N.  Bucher,  F.  E.  Markt,  J.  AV.  Buntz  and  J.  H.  Mur- 
ray. 

The  above  is  condensed  from  a  verj^  complete  his- 
tory furnished  by  Elder  Van  Buskirk,  Clerk  of  Ses- 
sion. 

Hon.  N.  F.  Murray,  who  was  translated  May  26, 
1908,  from  the  General  Assembly  in  session  at  Kansas 
City,  to  "the  general  assembly  and  church  of  the  first- 
born enrolled  in  heaven,"  was  for  thirty  years  an 
active  and  efficient  elder.  His  daughter  Minnie,  Mrs. 
J.  S.  Cunningham,  is  a  missionary  in  West  Africa.  He 
was  born  in  Virginia,  ]\rarch  17,  1839. 


A  church  was  organized  in  the  Plum  Creek  school 
house  November  26,  1858,  by  Revs.  J.  M.  Canfield  and 
J.  B.  Harbison  and  Elder  Samuel  Rannels,  with  Hugh 
Cochran  and  wife,  Mrs.  Frederick,  Mrs.  Jane  Marquam, 
Samuel  Rannels  and  wife  and  William  Stockton  and 
Avife.  The  next  day  John  McBride,  Sarah  Morton, 
Malissa  Jane  Rannels.  George  Smith  and  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Stoifel  were  added.  S.  Rannels  was  the  first  elder.  A 
frame  church,  costing  $325,  was  errected  in  1854,  The 
name  Avas  changed  from  Plum  Creek  to  Mirabile  in 
1855.  The  Civil  War  suspended  tlie  church,  which 
was  reorganized  in  1866.  In  1879,  the  old  church  was 
replaced  by  one  costing  $1,600. 

The  above  is  from  a  local  history  in  the  Kansas 
City  Library. 

The  early  records  being  lost,  the  present  incomplete 
record  was  gathered  by  Rev.  John  Wilson. 

What  frtllows  is  from  a  very  full  account  fur- 
nished in  1906,  by  Mrs.  Mary  C.  (Wm.  H.)  AVhite. 

"Araonjz"  our  papers  we  find  a  deed,  given  Septem- 
ber 29,  1857,  by  William  E.  Marquam  and  Jane  Mar- 


HISTORY    01'   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  45 

i]uam,  his  wife,  'proprietors  of  the  town  of  Mirabile/ 
conveying  to  the  'trustees  of  IMirabiJe  Presbyterian 
Church  and  to  their  successors  forever.'  the  land  on 
which  our  present  church  was  erected.  In  connection 
with  it  he  also  deeded  land  (five  acres)  for  a  ceme- 
ter}^,  to  be  held  in  the  same  manner.  It  still  remains 
in  charsfe  of  the  trustees  who,  at  present,  are  Thos. 
AVilkin,  W.  H.  Stillwell  and  W.  H.  White.  The  trus- 
tees whose  names  appear  in  1857.  are  George  Smith, 
John  McBride,  Simon  Stockton  and  W.  E.  IMarquam. 

'""l^he  churcfi  liere  was  reorganized  in  1866,  and  the 
application  for  a  charter  is  dated  June  29,  1874,  and 
bears  the  names  of  E.  Fort,  H.  M.  Cooper,  Jacob  Clute, 
Geo.  Fort,  Geo.  M.  Treat,  Nicholas  F.  Clute,  Hugh.  C. 
Stockt(m,  Elias  Lankford  and  James  IMylar.  The 
oldest  members  of  our  church  in  point  of  age  are 
i\lr.  and  Mrs.  AVilliam  Stillwell  who  joined  the  church 
by  certificate  in  1877.  The  latter  is  in  her  86th  year. 
To  her  wonderful  memory  and  kindness  of  heart  we 
are  indebted  for  much  of  the  information  we  are  able 
to  give.  Another  venerable  member  is  Mr.  Daniel 
Fort,  wdiose  father,  Elderet  Fort,  was  the  first  elder  oi 
whose  election  we  find  any  account.  The  elders  elected 
since  1882  are  J.  H.  Conlev,  Geo.  Wilkinson,  J.  N. 
Matchett,  Robert  MaTciuis,'  Thos.  Virtue,  Thos.  Wil- 
kin and  W.  H.  White.  Prior  to  that  we  know  of  E. 
Fort,  Cyrus  Hartpence,  Elias  Lankford,  Nicholas  F. 
Clute,  Joseph  Mylar  and  Hugh  C.  Stockton. 

"This  church  was  for  years  the  only  Protestant  one 
:'n  or  near  Miral)ile.  It  is  groux>ed  usually  with  that 
at  Kingston  or  Hamilton,  and  has  preaching  only  once 
or  twice  a  monih.  Our  present  building  was  erected 
in  1874  on  the  site  of  the  old  church.'' 

Since  the  above  was  written,  H.  C.  Matchett  has 
been  added  to  the  Session. 

Rev.  Geo.  A.  McKinlay,  ^^'ho  served  the  Mirabile 
Church  from  1872  to  1875,  writes: 

"Among  the  worthy  members  of  this  church  special 
mention  may  properly  be  made  of  the  three  elders,  E. 
Port,   Iincie   Joe   INFylar    (as   lie  was   often   familiarly 


46  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

called)  and  Hugh  Stockton.  A  young-  minister  could 
wish  for  no  more  appreciative  and  wisely  critical  hear- 
ers, affording  a  balance  and  stiraulus  that  theological 
seminaries  do  not  always  give.  Mr.  Fort  was 
of  the  old.  solid  Dutch  stock  of  New  York, 
reared  on  the  Heidelberg  catechism  and  unbend- 
ing as  the  five  x"><^iiits  of  Calvinism.  Still  he 
was  not  hypercritical  of  the  vagaries  of  a 
novice  in  the  ministry.  The  practical  good  sense 
of  the  man  ]?  seen  in  an  incident  taken  from  his  own 
lips  by  the  present  writer.  He  had  from  boyhood  been 
addicted  to  the  use  of  the  iveed,  and  would  often  be 
on  the  streets  of  the  village  with  a  pipe.  One  day  he 
espied  two  young  boys  puffing  away  at  their  pipes, 
Avhen  the  thought  came  to  him  with  great  force  that 
his  OAvn  example  might  be  the  means  of  infiuenciug 
snch  boys,  and  ho  immediately  threw  away  his  pipe.  . 

'•Mr.  J^.Iylar  came  of  the  good  old  Presbyterian 
stock  of  Ohio,  strong  on  the  matter  and  proof  texts  of 
the  Westminster  catechism.  His  religion  often  partook 
of  that  emotional  type  seen  in  men  of  large  heart. 
One  Fourth  of  July,  a  few  of  the  neighboring  families 
were  quietly  enjoying  a  picnic.  As  they  were  about 
to  separate  Mr.  Mylar  proposed  that  they  sing  and 
have  a  season  of  prayer.  Immediately  some  one  struck 
up  'There  is  a  fountain  filled  vvith  blood,'  all  joining 
in  the  refrain.  As  they  proceeded  Uncle  Joe  could 
not  restrain  his  emotions,  being  visibly  affected  to 
tears  at  the  closing  lines, 

'When  this  poor  lisping,  stammering  tongue 
Lies  silent  in  the  grave.' 

''Hugh  Stockton  was  the  young  man  in  the  elder- 
ship, genial,  earnest  and  pure  hearted,  a  true  typ3 
of  the  practical,  Western-born  ^Tissourian." 

"Anj^  sketch  of  the  Mirabile  Church  would  need  to 
include  the  names  of  the  two  sisters,  'Zllothers  in 
Israel,'  Mrs.  Cochran  and  ]Mrs.  Stockton.  Their  sweet 
and  placid  faces  always  greeted,  the  minister  from 
the  same  pew,  giving  assurance  of  hearts  en^zaged  in 
prayer   for   a   blessuig   on   the   service.      Southern   in 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE   PRESBYTERY.  47 

birth,  training'  and  sympathy;  their  kinchies!?  embraced 
all,  whether  hailing'  from  North  or  South.  They  used 
to  tell  an  amusing  episode  of  tlie  Avar  time.  The 
whole  coujitry  v.'as  infested  with  bands  of  .cjuerriUasi 
of  both  sides.  One  Sabbath  reli2*ious  services  were 
being  held  in  a  school  house,  the  Poages  attending. 
A  company  of  men  came  along,  and  placing  the 
stars  and  stripes  over  the  door,  proposed  to  force  the 
whole  congregation  to  come  out  under  its  folds  at  the 
close  of  the  service.  But  Mrs.  Poage,  scorning  to  sub- 
}i]it  to  the  dictation  of  irresponsible  guerrillai^.  though 
large  of  form,  promptly  bolted  out  of  an  open  win- 
dow, cheating  the  band  of  a  portion  of  their  triumph. 

"One  of  the  most  interesting  times  in  the  life  of 
the  Mirabile  Church,  was  the  short  ministry  of  the 
Rev.  Joseph  H.  France,  D.  D.  After  a  brilliant  course 
in  college,  Mr.  France  had  come  west  from  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  his  home,  to  practice  law  in  Kansas  City. 
It  was  not  long  till  he  was  convinced  that  he  must 
preach  the  gospel,  and  he  came  at  the  opening  of  the 
seventies  to  the  churches  of  Lathrcp  and  Mirabile. 
Those  countrv  farmers  knew  a  good  sermon  when 
they  heard  it,  and  gave  Brother  France  their  whole 
heart.  Congregations  filled  the  church  and  a  spirit 
of  revival  was  soon  manifest.  The  tradition  of  those 
grand  sermons  is  writ  large  in  the  history  of  the 
Mirabile  Church." 


A  Presbyterian  church  was  organized,  January  12, 
lSo4,  at  the  house  of  Mrs.  Susan  N.  Combs,  by  Rev. 
W.  R.  Fulton  of  Oregon,  commissioned  by  Upper  Mis- 
souri Presbvterv,  with  the  following  members:  Dr. 
0.  Brown,  C^  C.  Carson,  Mrs.  S.  N.  Combs,  Mrs.  E.  Car- 
son, James  Dysart;  Mrs.  L.  D^sart,  Mrs.  L.  Fore, 
Mrs.  L.  Fulkerson,  Dr.  James  E.  Hewlett,  Mrs.  Lucy 
A.  Hewlett,  Francis  Irwin,  James  M,  IrAvin,  Mrs. 
Louisa  C.  IrAvin,  Mrs.  N.  T).  Langford,  Mrs.  Hettie 
Monroe,  John  Montgomery,  Mrs.  E.  Monte^omery,  Wm. 
Sublette,  Mrs.  S.  S.  Sublette,  Wm.  Vanarsdale  and 
Geo.  C.  Yenable.  Dr.  Oscar  Brown,  C.  C.  Carson  and 
Jas.  Dvsart  were  elected  elders:  and  Dr.  J.  E.  Hew- 


48  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

lett,  W.  Sublette  and  G.  C.  Venable,  deacons.  They 
worshipped  in  various  halls  till  the  iirst  of  January, 
1860.  when  they  moved  into  the  basement  of  the  church 
on  the  southwest  corner  of  Sixth  and  Faraon  streets, 
and  by  the  vote  of  the  cont^rei^ation  the  organization 
took  the  name  of  the  Sixth  Street  Presbyterian  Church. 

The  church  prospered  under  the  ministrations  of 
Revs.  A.  C.  V.  Schenck,  John  G.  Fackler  and  Aaron  P. 
Forman.  In  the  Avinter  of  1862-3,  notwithstanding  the 
excitement  of  those  troublous  times,  there  was  a  great 
outpouring  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  "During  that  revival 
of  ten  weeks,  134  persons  were  added  to  the  commun- 
ion of  the  church." 

In  1867  there  was  a  division  in  the  church,  with 
a  frieudly  and  eciuitable  division  of  the  i)roperty.  The 
large  majority  forming  the  present  First  Church 
(whose  history  immediately  follows  this)  took  the 
parsonage.  The  minority  retained  the  name  and  also 
the  building,  still  only  a  basement.  In  this  building 
Platte  Presbytery  was  organized  in  July,  1870,  and 
not  long  after  a  brick  church  was  completed  on  the 
walls  of  this  basement.  But  to  do  this,  they  borrowed 
^8,000,  and  being  unable  to  pay  even  the  ten  per  cent 
interest,  in  October,  1872,  they  turned  the  building 
over  to  the  Westminster  Church,  which  met  all  claims, 
then  amountino-  to  $12,000,  by  giving  its  property  on 
Felix  street.  The  church  was  dissolved  by  Presbyter}'- 
in  the  fall  of  1872.  Thev  had  been  served  in  the  mean- 
time bv  Revs.  E.  P.  Cowan,  H.  A.  Newell.  Wm.  H.  Giil 
and  Wm.  H.  Hillis. 

"John  Colhoun,  who  seldom  missed  a  meeting  of 
the  session  and  was  probably  the  most  reliable  of  the 
body  of  elders,  joined  the  Westminster  Church,  and 
then  removed  to  the  First  Church  in  1875.  Elders 
C.  T.  Gaugh  and  Wm.  Zook  united  with  the  West- 
minster Church:  C.  C.  Carson  and  James  Dysart  be- 
came elders  in  the  Walnut  Grove  Church;  and  Jam.es 
McConnell  and  Alex.  Smiley  ceased  to  appear  on  the 
records  after  the  organization  of  the  Willow  Brook 
Church." 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  49 

A  portion  of  the  precerliiig-  and  the  whole  of  the 
following'  are  taken  from  a  very  full  an<l  interesting 
manuseript  history  of  the  First  Church,  kindiy  loaned 
by  Elder  W.  T.  Sanders,  Clerk  of  Session. 

During  the  pastorate  of  Dr.  Forman,  in  1867,  the 
conoregation  of  the  First  Church  started  a  movement 
lookinir  to  the  erection  of  a  new  church  huihling.  hi 
1868  the  work  was  so  far  advanced  that  the  lecture 
room  was  completed  and  fitted  up,  and  used  for  services 
till  the  main  auditorium  was  finished.  Prior  to  this 
the  services  were  held  in  a  large  hall  knoAvn  as  the 
' '  Aeadem}^  of  Music. ' ' 

In  April,  1870,  Dr.  Forman  was  compelled  by  fail- 
ing health  to  resign,  and  in  September,  1870,  Mr.  Fack- 
ler,  to  the  universal  delight  of  the  congrega- 
tion, returned  and  resumed  the  pastoral  charge  of  the 
church.  During  the  fifteen  months  following  his 
return  the  congregation  contributed  for  the 
completion  of  the  church  building  and  the  pay- 
ment of  some  debts  about  $13,000,  and  within 
the  same  period  there  were  added  to  the  mem- 
bership of  the  church,  ninety  persons,  mosth^  on  con- 
fession of  their  faith.  The  new  church,  one  of  the 
largest,  most  substantial  and  tastefully  finished 
church  buildinu's  in  the  city,  was  dedicated  on  Sun- 
day, January  21,   1872. 

In  1873-4,  protracted  or  revival  meetings  were  held 
in  the  church  and  more  than  a  hundred  members,  some 
of  them  our  most  prominent  citizens  and  business  men, 
were  received. 

Mr.  Fackler  was  compelled  by  ill  health  to  resigTi 
in  July,  1875,  and  was  followed  by  Rev.  R.  S.  Campbell 
who  served  until  December,  1890.  During  Dr.  Camp- 
bell's pastorate  several  mission  Sunday  schools  were 
supported  by  the  First  Church,  and  in  1888,  a  Mission 
Church — the  Third  Presbyterian  Church — was  organ- 
ized with  fifty-three  members,  two  elders  and  two 
deacons,  the  ofBcers  and  some  of  the  members  going 
from    the     First     Church,  which,     in    1889,     erected 

—4. 


50  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

for  them,  at  24th  and  Faraon  streets,  a  church  build- 
ing costing  about  $2,600. 

After  being  briefly  supplied  by  Rev.  A.  A.  Pfan- 
stiehl  and  Dr.  T.  J.  Hendrick,  the  church  called  Dr. 
Geo.  A.  Trenholm  who  "was  an  excellent  preacher, 
a  kind  and  tender  minister,  and  was  beloved  by  th<- 
entire  congrescation."  Dr.  Trenholm  was  taken  ill  iii 
the  summer  of  1898,  and  lingered  till  May  25,  1899, 
when  Grod  in  his  mysterious  providence  called  this 
good  and  powerful  i^reacher  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ 
unto  himself.  Dr.  W.  E.  Boggs  supplied  the  church  till 
the  coming  of  Rev.  W.  R.  Dobyns  who  preached  his 
iJrst  sermon  as  pastor-elect  December  3,  1899  and  v^as 
duly  installed  January  28,  1900.  ''The  pastoral  rela- 
tion still  continues  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  the  con- 
gregation. The  good  work  that  has  been  accomplished 
during  his  pastorate  is  known  and  felt  throughout 
the  whole  church." 

During  the  last  eight  years  the  church  has  in- 
creased in  efficiency  along  all  lines.  Five  foreign  and 
four  home  missionaries  are  now  maintained,  and  three 
other  churches  and  chapels  have  been  put  up  and  sup- 
ported in  whole  or  part,  in  this  city.  The  contributions 
to  all  causes  have  increased  to  something  like  five-fold. 
Jn  contributions  to  foreign  missions  this  church  leads 
aJl  others  connected  \Wth  our  General  Assembly.  Tbe 
church  numbers  among  its  officers,  leading  business 
and  professional  men  of  the  city,  and  these  have  not 
been  selected  on  that  account,  but  because  of  their 
superior  riuali/i cations  for  the  place.  The  Sabbath 
School  has  a  larger  average  attendance  than  ever 
before. 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  51 


1855-1860. 

Religious  work  in  this  section,  especially  in  Platte 
county,  was  seriously  affected  by  the  excitement  and 
disorder  consequent  on  the  virtnal  repeal  of  the  Mis- 
siouri  Compromise  by  the  passage  of  the  Kansas- 
Kebraska  bill.  Elder  George  S.  Park,  compelled  by 
the  conditions  of  society,  had  long  been  a  slaveholder, 
having  intelligent  Presbyterian  slaves,  but  he  m.ade 
himself  especially  obnoxious  to  the  pro-slavery  men 
by  insisting,  in  his  paper.  The  Industrial  Luminary, 
that  the  i\!issouri  people  should  not  do  the  voting  for 
the  Kansas  people.  These  men,  termed  ''Kansas 
Leaguers,'-  came  to  Parkville,  April  14,  1855,  and 
thrcAV  his  press  into  the  river.  Mr.  Park  was  aAvay 
then,  but  two  days  later  they  came  again  to  hang  him, 
but  his  friends,  fully  armed,  forbade  that,  and  so  they 
spared  his  life  on  condition  that  he  leave  the  country. 
He  did  so  and  the  Presbyterian  Church  was  broken 
up  for  a  time. 

About  a  year  before  his  death,  Mr.  Park  inci- 
dentally gave  the  writer  the  following  facts:  On  the 
morning  of  April  15,  Mr.  Park  arrived  home  from 
Manhattan,  Kans.,  to  find  his  type  scattered  in  the 
street  and  his  press  at  the  bottom  of  the  Missouri. 
Hearing  the  whistle  of  a  steamboat,  he  went  to  the 
landing  and  spied  the  Rev.  Fred  Starr,  of  Weston,  on 
the  hurricane  deck.  As  all  the  steamboats  wooded 
up  at  Parkville  and  thus  there  would  be  ample  time, 
he  invited  Mr.  Starr  to  come  and  take  dinner  with  him. 
Mr.  Starr  replied  that  he  could  not,  as  he  was  a  prisoner 
and  being  cleported  to  St.  [jouis.  Mr.  Park  Avent  on 
board  in  order  to  go  up  to  him,  but  at  the  foot  of  the 
stairs  he  was  met  by  a  sentry  and  ordered  back.  So 
they  could  converse  only  at  a  distance.  Mr.  Starr  pro- 
posed that  Mr.  Park  go  to  St.  Louis  with  him — a 
journey  whicli  he  soon  took. 


The  Fillmore  Church  was  organized,  in  the  Metho- 
dist Church,  June  25,  1855,  by  R^vs.  W!  R.  Fulton  and 


53  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

Robert  Scott,  ^vith  the  followinj?  inembers:  Andrew  and 
Maria  Chambers,  Isaac  and  Eleanor  Cowan,  Joseph 
and  Eleanor  GiJmoiirj  Mrs  Mary  Gresen,  Catharine 
and  Sarah  McCallen,  Angeline  McCreary,  Mrs. 
Meagher,  Wm.  Nicldes,  Wm.  and  Martha  Oasley,  Car- 
oline Oiisley  and  Upton  and  Amanda  Rohrer.  Messrs. 
Cowan  and  Nickles  were  elected  elders;  and  Chambers 
and  Ousley,  deacons. 

The  church  was  served  by  W.  R.  Enlton,  W.  D. 
Syminofton,  J.  N.  Young,  E.  B.  Sherwood  and  N.  H. 
Smith.  The  imperfect  records  make  the  elders,  in  ad- 
dition to  the  above  to  have  been  Robert  Mnir,  Hugh  W. 
Gilchrist,  Dr.  W.  E.  Brown.  Philip  W.  Anderson  and 
Benj.  S.  Jackson.  The  church  dwindled  through  re- 
movals, the  last  recorded  meetings  of  S'cssion  being 
solely  to  give  letters  of  dismission.  The  little  handful 
left  gave  up  the  fight  finally  and  sold  the  church  about 
1887,  passing  the  proceeds,  equal  in  amount  to  what  the 
church  had  received,  over  to  the  Board  of  Church  Erec- 
tion, which  had  helped  to  build  it. 


The  New  Providence  Congregation  was  organized 
February  7,  1855,  in  a  union  church  about  seven  miles 
north  of  Chill icothe,  by  Rev.  John  E.  Nevins,  by  order 
of  the  Chill  icothe  Presbytery.  The  charter  members, 
as  far  as  they  can  be  made  out  Proin  the  meager  and  im- 
perfect records  were  Elisha  Francis,  Polly  Francis, 
Wm.  F.  McGee,  Sarah  McGee,  Mary  K.  McGee,  Charles 
W.  Ward,  Elizabeth  Ward,  Orphias  Ward,  Caroline 
Ward.  Elisha  Francis  was  one  of  the  iirs1  elders; 
Henry  Wiscarver  was  ordained  June  15,  1856,  and  Sam- 
uel Buckbee,  Wm.  R.  Scholl  and  Joseph  Ward, 
February  18,  1860.  The  only  early  members  still  liv- 
ing (in  Ai'gust,  1907)  were  F.  D.  Ward,  aged  eighty- 
two;  Maggie  Ward,  who  united  with  the  church  in  the 
early  sixties;  Mattie  E.  jNTinor,  who  united  in  1866;  J. 
H.  Breedlove.  uniting  in  1860,  and  his  wife,  IMrs.  R.  M. 
Breedlove,  who  is  Clerk  of  Session  and  furnished  all 
this  information,  and  has  been  a  member  since  August 
21,  1867. 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  53 

The  elders,  in  addition  to  those  named  above,  are 
John  Patterson,  Nathan  Cravens,  Wm.  F.  McGee,  Joel 
Minor,  Henry  Ward,  J.  W.  :\TcGee,  James  W.  Smith,  E. 
P.  P]lmore  and  Frank  C.  Smith. 

The  ministers  who  have  served  the  eon ji^regation  are 
Wiley  Clark,  S.  L.  Edgar,  Robert  Speer,  Alex.  Critch- 
field.  John  W.  French,  Thomas  Montg-omerj',  J.  H. 
Tharp,  J.  M.  Ratian,  E.  S.  Ra^an,  P.  W.  Winn,  Frank 
Davis,  S.  D..  Belt,  S.  S.  Hardin  and  J.  R.  Adkins. 

The  neat  frame  church,  abont  four  miles  northwest 
of  Chula,  was  bailt  in  1876.  Before  they  worshipped 
in  the  Ward  school  house.  Though  a  weak,  strug- 
gling country  church,  with  preachint:^  only  a  part  of  tlie 
time,  they  have  kept  up  a  Sabbath  school  since  in  the 
early  sixties.  Especially  active  in  it  have  been  Joel 
Minor,  Henry  Ward,  Mrs.  Mary  Minor  Ward,  E.  P. 
Elmore  and  R.  D.  Ward.  The  last  named  is  a  grandson 
of  Joel  Minor. 

Elizabeth  Ward  died  in  18S0,  at  a  ripe  old  age.  Her 
influence  is  still  felt.  Noel  Gates,  though  a  Christian 
only  a  few  years,  was  the  most  zealous  Christian 
worker  it  was  my  privilege  ever  to  know.  Charles 
W.  and  Joseph  AVard,  brothers,  were  both  ])illars  in 
the  congregation.  Joel  Minor,  though  incapacitated 
by  defective  hearing  for  many  of  the  public  duties  of 
an  elder,  was  a  faithful  worker.  E.  P.  Elmore,  a  mem- 
ber for  over  forty  years,  has  been  a  model  sexton  for 
years,  never  having  failed,  except  when  ill  or  absent 
at  Presbytery,  to  open  up  the  church  and  have  it 
wanned  and  lighted  up  on  time. 


The  Rochester  Congregation,  which  was  first  organ- 
ized December  16,  ISno,  was  reorganized  by  Rev.  All-^^n 
Guthrie  in  June,  1867,  and  the  original  name.  Muddy 
Creek,  changed  to  Rochester  at  the  fall  session  of  Platte 
Presbytery  at  Agency  in  August,  T871.  The  early  mem- 
bers, as  remembered  (the  early  records  being  gone), 
were  Yv'm.  Blue,  wife  and  three  daughters,  W.  M.  PTay- 
ter,  Mrs.  Elvira  Hicklin,  Samuel  Irwin,  Samuel  Jei- 
fers  and  wife.  Wm.  jMcKee,  W.  P.  Slade  and  wife,  Mrs. 


5i  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTE-RY. 

Elizabeth  Slade  and  Samuel  Stewart,  wife  and  one' 
daughter.  The  first  elders  were  W.  N.  Haj^ter,  S. 
jlrwin  and  W.  P.  Slade,  followed  by  John  Se<rrist,  Henry 
Blount,  Geo.  W.  Lewis,  W.  R.  Nuckols,  Henry  Mattox 
and  J.  F.  Martin.  The  church  house  cost  nearly  $1,500. 
The  above  infcrniation  was  furnished  by  Elders  W. 
R.  Nuckols,  of  Savannah,  Clerk  of  Session,  and  W.  P. 
Slade  of  Helena,  who  was  ejected  in  1855. 


The  Shady  Grove,  or  finally  Fishing  River,  Congre- 
gation, near  Excelsior  Springs,  was  organized  in  the 
spring  of  1856,  or  probably  some  years  earlier.  Mr 
A.  M.  Cameron,  Clerk  of  Session  in  1905,  \Arrote:  '^In 
the  Session  book  T  find  it  recorded  that  the  first  records 
were  burned  at  the  house  of  one  of  the  early  elders,  and 
in  this  record  it  was  stated  that  there  were,  to  the  best 
of  the  recollection  of  James  IMcCrorey  and  Daniel  Pat- 
ton,  thirty-one  members  in  the  spring  of  185C." 

Elder  J.  C.  Ferril,  a  later  Clerk  of  Session  has  given 
the  following:  Daniel  Patton  and  Wiley  Clark  were 
the  first  ministers:  after  them  L.  J.  A.  Prather,  John 
Prather,  Lafayette  Munkirs,  Hugh  R.  Smith  and  Henry 
Renick.  Among  the  early  members  were  Jessie  Clark, 
Tersy  Clark,  David  L.  Ferril  and  wife,  J.  C.  Ferril,  Mrs. 
Holt,  James  McCrore.y,  Nancy  Patton  and  "^Tother" 
Prather.  The  list  of  elders  gives  Andrew  Robison, 
Edward  Picket,  James  McCrorey,  Wm.  Holt,  Sidney 
.IMorrow,  B.  F.  Marr  and  J.  C.  Ferril. 


The  Providence  Church  v/as  organized  May  3,  1857, 
in  a  locality  known  as  Walnut  Grove,  about  seven  miles 
southeast  of  St.  Joseph,  by  a  committee  consisting  of 
Rev.  Casey  A.  Wiley  and  Polder  John  Colhoun, 
appointed  by  the  Presbytery  of  Upper  ^.lissouri  in  re- 
sponse to  a  petition  from  a  number  of  members  of  the 
St.  Joseph  Church.  The  original  members  were  C. 
C.  Carson,  Charles  C.  Carson,  jr.,  Jane  Elizabeth  Carson, 
Louisa  M.  Carson,  Paulina  Carson,  James  Dysart, 
Louisa  Dysart,  Nancy  D.  Langford,  IMargaret  McCon- 
nel,  Elizabeth  IMcDaniel,  John  INtcDaniel,  Lydia  E.  Mc- 
Daniel,  ]\Lary  Jane  McDaniel,  James  ^lathews,  Eliza- 


HISTORY    OP^    PLATTE    PRESBYTE'RY.  55 

beth  Montgomery,  John  Montgomery,  Ann  E.  Robin- 
son, Alexander  Smiley,  Alex.  M.  Smiley,  Nancy  Smiley 
and  Sarah  Jane  Smiley.  C.  C.  Carson,  J.  Dysart  and 
Alex,  and  A.  M.  Smiley  were  elected  elders. 

The  Records  show  the  admission  of  nine  colored  per- 
sons to  the  church,  on  the  confession  of  their  faith,  in 
1859  and  1860. 

''The  church  continued  to^ flourish  np  to  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  rebellion  in  186J,  when  the. organization 
lost  its  existence,  most  of  the  late  members  who  re- 
mained in  the  country  re-uniting"  themselves  with  the 
church  in  St.  Joseph."  Prior  to  this  date  John  Doug- 
lass had  been  added  to  the  Session  and  the  church  had 
been  served  bv  Revs.  C.  A.  Wilev,  Gary  Hickman  and 
Robert  Scott.  ^ 

"On  the  second  day  of  November,  1872,  in  a  new 
and  neat  frame  building  erected  near  the  site  of  the  old 
Pro^'idence  Church,  by  the  united  efforts  of  several  re- 
ligious denominations,  the  old  Providence  Church  was 
reorganized  under  the  name  and  style  of  Walnut  Grove 
Church.  Twenty-two  members  composed  the  or- 
ganization, with  the  Rev.  James  L.  Barnes,  a  minister 
of  ability  and  distingruished  scholarship,  as  pastor;  Col. 
James  Dysart,  D.  C.  Montgomery  and  Joshua  Ewing, 
elders;  and  Allen  S.  Kanten  and  James  Gaston,  dea- 
cons.    The  church  is  in  a  prosperous  condition." 

The  above  was  obtained  from  two  sources — the 
Records  of  the  Providence  Church,  secured  by  Judge 
John  L.  Leonard  by  long  and  persevering  effort;  and 
a  series  of  Historical  Sketches  of  all  the  churches  of 
St.  Joseph  published  in  a  city  paper  in  1874,  and  wisely 
preserved  by  Dr.  Henry  Bullard.  These  sketches  have 
been  largely  used  in  the  history  of  the  early  St.  Joseph 
churches. 

No  light  has  been  obtained  as  to  when  and  why 
the  above  Y\"alnut  Grove  Church  became  practically 
extinct.  Judge  Leonard,  Clerk  of  Session  of  the  pres- 
ent Walnut  Grove  Church,  has  kindly  furnished  what 
follows. 


56  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTE'RY. 

This  church  was  organized  April  20,  1897,  by  a 
commission  appointed  by  -Presbyters^  consisting  of 
Kevs.  G.  A.  Trenholm  and  W.  S.'  Foreman.  The  fol- 
lowing persons  presented  letters  of  dismissal  from 
the  Second  Presbj^terian  Chnrch  of  St  Joseph: 
Misses  Daisy,  Emma  and  Jnlia  Dysart,  Samuel 
Dysart,  Mr  and  Mrs.  Frank  Ewing,  Wm.  J. 
Ewing,  Miss  Mary  H.  Fogg,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
John  L.  Leonard,  Misses  Euphora  May  and 
Perilla  L.  Leonard,  Mr.  W.  D.  Pyne,  Misses  Julia  K. 
and  Man^  M.  Pyne  and  Mrs.  Dora  Smith.  Mr.  atid 
Mrs.  J.  C.  t*ryor  and  Mr.  S.  P.  Smith  were  received 
on  profession  of  their  faith  in  Christ,  and  their  names 
enrolled.  Messrs.  J.  L.  Leonard  and  W.  J.  Ewing  were 
elected  elders,  the  latter  ordained  and  both  installed. 
Messrs.  J.  K.  Jones  and  W.  D.  Pyne  were  elected,  or- 
dained, and  installed  as  deacons. 

^lay  25,  1897,  Presbytery,  at  Lawson,  gave  the 
church  permission  to  employ  Rev.  Duncan  Cunning- 
ham for  one  year,  for  half  his  time,  at  $250  per  year. 
Mr.  Cunningham  remained  till  April  1,  1902,  and  Rev. 
(Judge ^-  Xenophon  Ryland  ministered  to  the  church 
from  AuG'ust  1,  1903,  till  December  1,  1904,  having  held 
a  series  of  meetings  for  us  in  March,  1908.  He  was 
followed  by  Rev.  J.  M.  Campbell.  W.  D.  Pyne  and  J. 
K.  Jones  were  elected  to  the  eldership  in  September, 
1903;  and  W.  W.  Frazer,  in  September,  1905. 

''Walnut  Grove  Presbvterian  S.  S.  was  started  sev- 
eral years  before  the  organization  of  the  church,  as 
a  Mission  School  from  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  has  never  closed.  We  have  now  (Octo- 
ber, 1908)  only  thirty-one  members  on  our  roll,  but 
are  proud  of  the  fact  that  we  have  two  in  the  foreign 
field,  Miss  Annie  E.  Dysart  at  MatamoraS;  Mexico, 
and  ]\riss  Julia  Dysart  in  Korea." 


The  Albany  Church  was  organized  May  30,  1857. 
b^  Revs.  Ralph  Harris  and  John  N.  Young  (who  be- 
came the  first  pastor)  and  elder  S.  Edmiston,  with  the 
following    members:    Allen    G.    IMcConkey    (who    was 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  57 

made  the  first  elder),  Mrs.  Mary  McConkey,  Mrs.  Mar- 
i^^aret  Miller,  Mrs.  Ilarriet  Rannels,  Misses  Caroline 
and  Sarah  Rannels  and  Mrs.  Jane  Youngr.  A  small 
chnrch  building:  was  secured,  but  sold  when  it  beeame 
too  small,  after  which  the  congregation  worshipped 
in  public  halls  and  other  churches  till  in  1884,  when 
a  commodious  building,  costing"  $2,400,  was  erected. 
Since  1900  the  pulpit  has  been  vacant  except  as  sup- 
plied temporarily.  The  church  has  been  served  bv 
Revs.  J.  N.  Young,  C.  McCain,  N.  H.  Smith,  D.  Mc- 
Ruer,  M.  L.  Anderson,  John  Huston,  W.  A.  Cravens, 
A.  M.  Tanner,  T.  M.  Ilillman,  M.  J.  McLeod,  Jay  C. 
Hanna,  Arthur  B.  Ilerr,  F.  W.  Grossman  and  E.  H. 
Bull.  The  elders  are  A.  G.  McConkey,  J.  H.  Virden, 
J.  H.  White,  J.  W.  Owen,  B.  F.  Lucas,  Thomas  J.  Smith, 
Jos.  C.  Power,  C.  M.  Gordon,  Robert  A.  Patterson  and 
Robert  M.  McCammon. 

On  the  14th  of  July,  1904,  an  arrangement  was  made 
])y  the  Home  Mission  Committee  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  and  the  Home  Mission  Committee  of  the  Cum- 
berland Presbyterian  Church,  in  Platte  Presbytery  for 
these  two  denominations  to  co-operate  in  their  work 
at  this  place.  Rev.  M.  B.  Irvine,  the  Cumberland  Pres- 
byterian minister  in  charge  at  the  time  was  continued 
as  pastor.  The  Sabbath  School  uses  the  Westminster 
helps  and  literature.  As  these  two  churches  soon 
united,  the  history  of  the  latter  will  be  given  here. 

A  Cumberland  Presbyterian  church  was  organized 
here,  March  12,  1884,  by  Rev.  James  H.  Tharp.  with 
forty-four  members :  Almira  P.  Birch,  I;Ou.  E.  Clark, 
Olive  Combs,  Alice  M.  Culp,  Moses  Cunningham,  R. 
J.  N.  Dorsey,  Florence  A.  Ervin,  Margaret  E.  Hard- 
wick,  Aurelia  S.  Homes,  Wallace  Hubbard,  Jennie  E. 
Johnson,  Geo.  W.  Jones,  Hampton  Jones,  Wm.  D. 
Jones,  Hannah  Kier,  James  A.  Larmer,  Nancy  J.  Lar- 
raer,  Norman  H.  Larmer,  Rosa  W.  Larmer,  Hat- 
tie  Lawson,  Thomas  D.  Lawson,  Emma  Lewis, 
J.  L.  Lewis,  Nellie  Mcintosh,  John  II.  Newman,  Chas. 
O.  Patton,  Frances  F.  Patton,  Luella  Patton,  Tena 
Pontius,  Gideon  W.  Sampson,  Ed.  C.  Sellers,  Victoria 
Sellers,   OUie   D.   Stephens,   Elizabeth   Taylor,   Maggie 


58  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTETIY. 

Taylor,  Wm.  S.  Taylor,  Mary  F.  Tharp,  Alice  M.  Way- 
man,  D.  P.  AYayman,  II.  ]\I.  Wayman,  Margaret  Way- 
man.  Rachel  C.  Wayman,  Margaret  Whaley  and  John 
S.  Williams.  The  organization  followed  a  revival 
conducted  by  Rev.  A.  M.  Buchanan  and  Rev  J.  H. 
Tharp,  continuing  about  three  months  and  resulting 
in  one  hundred  and  sixty  conversions.  March  22,  1884, 
Chas.  0.  Patton,  M.  Cunningham,  R.  J.  N.  Dorsey  and 
Dennis  P.  Wayman  were  elected  elders. 

The  church  has  has  been  served  by  the  following 
ministers:  J.  II.  Tharp,  J.  H.  Norman,  C.  E.  Hayes,  S. 
T.  Divinia,  M.  Lowe,  E.  M.  Wright,  R.  J.  Beard,  W. 
O.  Wozencraft,  Geo.  Wozencraft  and  M.  B.  Irvine. 
The  elders  are  C.  0.  Patton,  M.  Cunningham,  R.  J. 
N.  Dorsey,  D.  P.  Wayman,  AV.  Hubbard,  Hugh  M. 
Wayman,  J.  P.  McCammon  and  John  Newman. 

On  June  4,  1905,  at  joint  sessional  and  congrega- 
tional meetings  of  the  two  churches,  a  resolution  was 
adopted,  declaring  a  union,  and  that  the  sessions  and 
members  would  abide  by  the  decision  of  the  General 
Assembly. 

We  are  indebted  for  all  the  above  to  Elder  R.  ^I. 
McCammon,  long  Clerk  of  Session,  and  a  prominent 
and  most  iufluential  citizen  of  Albany. 


Mr.  W.  T.  Minnick,  then  Clerk  of  Session  of  the 
Tjock  Springs,  formerly  New  Design,  Church,  wrote 
December  10,  1906,  that  that  congregation  "was  or- 
ganized in  the  summer  or  early  fall  of  1857,  by  Revs. 
R.  Speer  and  J.  W.  French.  Nathaniel  Houston  was  or- 
dained elder.  In  1859,  A.  C.  and  J.  C.  Minnick  were 
ordained  elders.  The  pioneer  preachers  vvere  R.  Speer, 
J.  W.  French,  J.  D.  IMahan,  — .  — .  Walker,  A.  Cooper 
and  E.  S.  and  J.  M.  Ragan."  N.  McAdow  Tatum  was 
then  pastor.  At  present  Geo.  B.  Sproule  is  the  pastor: 
Elder  J.  R.  Minnick,  Clerk  of  Session:  and  the  mem- 
bership. 158. 


Mr.    Frank   P.   Keplar,   Clerk   of   Session   of  the 
Grand  River  Church,  wrote  in  November,  1908:   "The 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  59 

Grand  River  congregation  was  organized  .September 
7,  1857,  by  Rev.  R.  Speer,  with  eleven  members,  three 
oi*  whom  were  elected  ruling?  elders.  The  Records  of 
the  chnrch  from  1857  to  1870  were  destroyed  by  fire, 
but  the  original  members,  as  near  as  I  can  find  out, 
were  John  Grant,  Lavina  Grant,  R.  L.  Grant,  Elizabeth 
Headric,  Mary  J.  Headric,  Willson  Robinson,  Jonah 
D.  Wynn,  P.  N.  Wynn  and  Rebecca  Wynn. 

*'The  church  was  resuscitated  October  4,  1866,  by 
Rev.  J.  M.  Rag-an,  when  thirty-three  communicants 
were  enrolled ;  John  Grant,  Jonah  D.  W^Tin  and  Rob- 
ert B.  Foster  were  elected  elders;  and  Wm.  Grant  and 
James  Waugh,  deacons.  December  10.  1870,  G.  B. 
Kimball  and  Wm.  Grant  Avere  chosen  and  ordained 
elders,  the  Rev.  L.  A.  Burkhart  having  charge  of  the 
work  at  $62.50  per  six  months.  We  have  always 
worshipped  in  the  Hickory  Creek  Church  (five  miles 
southeast  of  Coffeyburg-  and  six  miles  north  of  Jame- 
son) which  is  OAvned  jointly  by  the  Baptists  and 
Presbyterians. 

''The  followiner  ministers  have  had  charge  of  the 
work:  P.  W.  W^Tin,  W.  N.  Nickell.  J.  W.  French,  J. 
H.  Tharp,  J.  IT.  Brundige,  J.  R.  Adkins,  J.  F.  Davis, 
S.  S.  Hardin,  J.  M.  Ragan,  S.  E.  McDonald,  and  L. 
Layman.  Peleg'  Vagel  and  M.  C.  A.  Wynn  were  elect- 
ed and  ordained  elders  in  1883.  and  Frank  P.  Kep- 
lar,  in  1887." 

The  Rev.  James  H.  Tharp,  twice  the  pastor,  wrote : 
"The  Gallatin  (C.  P.)  Church  was  orgranized  Novem- 
ber 24,  1857,  by  Revs.  W.  D.  Mahan  and  R.  Speer,  with 
ten  members — James  Davis.  Robert  Hannah,  Sarah 
Hannah,  Skelton  T.  Hill,  Mary  Hill,  Henry  W.  Lile, 
Wm.  P.  Lile.  James  IMinor,  Ruth  Minor  and  John  H. 
Pugh.  S.  T.  Hill,  H.  W.  Lile  and  R.  Hannah  were 
elected  elders. 

''Mrs.  Mary  Hill  was  a  most  consecrated  Christain 
and  devoted  church  member.  She  was  regarded  as  a 
'Mother'  in  this  local  church,  and  was  consulted  by  all 
in  the  worlc  of  the  church.     Her  home  was  the  home 


60  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTETIY. 

of  the  preachers.  The  other  women  who  were  most 
].)rominent  in  the  work  of  the  early  church  were  Mar- 
garet Grain,  America  Davis,  Mrs.  A.  Knauer,  Mrs. 
David  Boggs,  ]Mrs.  Selby  and  IMrs.  Wm.  Man;  the 
women  of  later  years,  Mrs.  Scott  PTaynes,  Mrs.  C.  L. 
Knauer.  Mrs.  A.  J.  Selby,  ^Trs.  Jennie  Fisher,  Mrs. 
Mary  J.  Lile,  etc. 

''Mr.  Hill  was  a  most  sincere  and  devoted  Christian 
man,  and  loved  the  church  ardently.  At  his  death  all 
his  material  resources  went  to  it  by  will.  He  gave 
$1,000  to  the  Gallatin  Church  as  a  permanent  fund  to 
heep  his  own  and  his  wife's  name  in  remembrance. 
He  gave  the  balance,  .$1,000  to  the  Ministerial  Relief 
Board.  Andrew  Knauer,  who  was  killed  a  few  years 
since  by  a  kick  from  a  horse,  was  a  prosperous  business 
man  of  Gallatin.  His  will  provided  for  two  good  prop- 
erties to  come  to  the  church  of  Gallatin  at  the  death  of 
his  wife.  Hiram  Cook  was  a  farmer,  and  for  years 
the  Session  put  it  upon  him  to  represent  his  church  in 
the  Presbyterial  meetings.  He  became  so  Avell  ac- 
quainted with  all  the  business  of  Presbytery  that  he 
was  very  serviceable  as  a  presbyter. 

"The  united  church  holds  and  uses  the  property 
owned  by  the  C.  P.  Church.  The  church  house  is 
valued  at  $10,000,  and  the  manse  at  $3,000. 

''Up  to  the  date  of  the  union  with  the  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Gallatin,  June  10,  1906,  the  following  min- 
isters supplied  the  church  or  were  pastors:  W.  D.  Ma- 
han,  J.  W.  French,  Alfred  T.  Cooper,  S.  D.  Burkhart, 
J.  M.  Ragan.  W.  S.  Davis.  P.  W.  Wynn,  J.  F.  Rogers, 
B.  F.  Looan,  J.  H.  Tharp,  M.  R.  Dougherty  and  H.  F. 
Smith.  The  elders  were  S.  T.  Hill,  H.  W.  Lile,  J. 
Minor,  Kehler  Wertz,  T.  J.  Grain,  Andrew  Knauer, 
Hiram  Cook,  Thomas  J.  Wertz,  Wm.  P.  Lile,  C.  Trout- 
wine.  Chas.  L.  Knauer.  Wm.  Robinson,  James  Lile  and 
Wm.  G.  Lile." 

The  following  history  of  the  church  that  united 
with  the  above  church  is  furnished  by  Elder  Charles 
Pipkin,   M.    D.      "The    Gallatin   Presbyterian   Church 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTETIY.  61 

was  or;i>anized  April  29,  1871,  by  a  committee  from 
riatte  Presbytery,  eonsistinp-  of  Revs.  E.  B.  Sherwood, 
Timothy  Morgan  and  Duncan  IMcRuer,  and  Elder  Wm. 
Allen.  The  following-  persons  were  present  and  were 
enrolled  as  members:  PTannah  Babcock,  Susan  11. 
Brown,  Hattie  Brundio-e,  Lydia  Brundige,  Alexander 
W.  Callahan,  Elizabeth  Callahan,  Carrie  Lindsay,  Mrs. 
Susan  I\r.  McDonald,  Emma  IMcDougall,  Wm.  A.  Mc- 
Dowell and  Rachel  Robertson.  A.  W.  Callahan  and  W. 
A.  McDowell  were  elected  Rulino;  Elders. 

'"Pastors  and  stated  supplies:  D.  ^IcRuer,  Wm. 
Kendrick,  John  Gillespie,  Wilson  Asdalo,  G.  A.  Mc- 
Kinlay,  P'.  E.  Thompson,  E.  M.  Palmer,  James  Kirk- 
wood,  C.  jMcCaiii,  Willis  Weaver,  Evander  McNair, 
PI.  W.  jMarshall  and  David  C.  Davies.  The  followino- 
is  an  incomplete  roll  of  the  elders:  A.  W.  Callahan, 
W.  A.  McDowell,  Jos.  C.  Shepherd.  Daniel  J.  Davis, 
R.  G.  Sawver,  David  Hummer,  P.  PI.  Hawkins,  James 
W.  Miller/ W^m.  Palmer,  C.  C.  Ward,  C.  M.  Harrison, 
T.  J.  Vogelgesang  and  Charles  Pipkin. 

'"After  the  General  Assembly  had  declared  that 
the  union  of  the  churches  had  been  completed,  our  con- 
greo-ations  simply  united  and  the  two  sessions  be- 
came one,  the  same  elders  continuing  in  office. 

"The  church  building  was  erected  by  the  Conc^re- 
gational  denomination  in  1863,  and  purchased  about 
1878,  the  Board  of  Church  erection  granting  $500. 
In  19CK),  the  church  was  improved  at  a  cost  of  $600, 
the  Board  granting  ^'200." 

Since  the  union  of  these  two  churches.  Rev.  J.  IT. 
Tharp  has  been  the  pastor,  and  A.  J.  Selby  has  been 
added  to  the  Session. 

The  followino-  extracts  are  from  a  letter  of  Rev. 
Geo.  A.  McKinlay,  an  early  pastor: 

''At  or  near  Gallatin  twenty-five  or  more  years  ago 
were  Dr.  Charles  Pipkin,  later  of  the  Jameson  Church, 
S.  D.  B.  Poage  and  wife  of  the  Bethel  Church,  and  E1-* 
ders  Hawkins  and  Davis.     ]Mr.  and  Mrs.  Poage  were 


62  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTE'RY. 

Jarge  of  heart  and  generous  in  hospitality.    Their  home 
was  a  genuine  Presbyterian  'house  bountiful/ 

"Among  the  'worthies'  of  the  Gallatin  Church  the 
name  of  Mrs.  iMars^  Gillespie"  (who  is  still  with  us) 
"should  not  be  forgotten.  Ccmtinuing  to  make  Gallatin 
lier  home  after  the  death  of  her  husband,  she  always 
took  a  lively  interest  in  the  church,  wise  in  counsel 
and  keen  in  her  knowledg;e  of  religious  needs.  Her 
genuine  Irish  wit  and  brilliant  mind,  all  fused  by  a 
true  and  warm  heart,  gave  her  presence  a  peculiar 
charm  to  all  her  friends.  Few  who  came  to  know  her 
will  forget  the  strength  and  beauty  of  her  person- 
ality." 


•  The  English  Grove  Church  was  organized  on  Satur- 
day, May  22,  1858,  at  the  home  of  John  Dunlap,  by 
a  committee  from  Platte  Presbytery  (see  page  2), 
Rev.  W.  R.  Fulton  l)eing  the  ^loderator,  with  the  fol- 
lowing members :  Geo.  W.  Curry,  Isaac  A.  Curry,  James 
A.  Curry,  Margaret  K.  Curry,  Eliza  Dolan,  James  M. 
Dunlap,  John  Dunlap,  ]Margaret  R.  Dunlap,  Mary  E. 
J)uiiiap,  Robert  K.  Dunlap,  Sarah  Hoover,  Charles 
Price,  R.  A.  Price  and  Susan  Vanatta.  I.  A.  Curry 
and  R.  K.  Dunlap  were  chosen  elders. 

The  ministers  who  have  supplied  this  church,  as 
near  as  I  can  find  out,  are  W.  R.  Fulton,  A.  S.  Billings- 
lev,  A.  P.  Forman,  H.  P.  S.  Willis,  J.  P.  Forman,  Chas. 
Price,  J.  A.  D.  Hughes,  E.  McXair,  L.  E.  McNair,  W. 
Asdale,  James  Kirkwood,  AV.  Beale,  R.  S.  Watson, 
D.  S.  West  and  John  Duncan. 

With  those  named  above,  the  elders  who  have 
served  the  church  are  Robert  Curry,  AV.  N.  Curry,  R. 
F.  Erwin,  W.  T.  Youel  and  W.  H.  Massingill.  There 
are  now  three  elders,  three  deacons  and  a  Sabbath 
school  of  sixty-five  members.  The  Sabbath  School, 
which  is  the  oldest  in  Atchison  county  and  continues 
all  the  year,  was  organized  in  1856,  with  Isaac  A. 
^  Curry  as  superintendent. 

The  church,  which  is  located  two  and  a  half  miles 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTETIY.  63 

west  of  Fairfax,  was  built  in  1867  or  1868,  at  a  prob- 
able cost  of  $1,500. 

For  the  above  we  are  indebted  to  Elder  R.  F.  Erwiu, 
Clerk  of  Session,  who  also  says: 

''Special  mention  should  be  made  of  Elder  Isaac  A. 
.Curry,  w^ho  died  ]3ecember  23,  1907,  aged  about  eighty 
years,  who  did  more  for  the  upholding  of  the  kingdom 
of  Christ  and  the  uplift  of  society  than  any  other  per- 
son in  the  church.  He  was  Clerk  of  Session  for  a  long 
time  and  S-uperintendent  of  the  Sabbath  school  for 
thirty  years.  He  was  greatly  helped  by  his  wife  who 
died  only  a  year  before  him:  also  by  his  sons  and  Mr. 
W.  A.  Hedriek  who  has  been  and  is  now  a  pillar  in 
the  church.  He  was  a  trusting,  humble,  faithful  fol- 
lower of  the  Master  whom  he  served." 


The  early  Eecords  of  the  Chillicothe  Church  are 
missing,  but  it  is  believed  that  it  was  organized  Nov- 
ember 27,  1858,  by  Rev.  Ralph  Harris. 

The  following  was  furnished,  after  much  research, 
b}"  Rev.  eT.  Franklin  Fetteroli,  the  tireless,  efficient  pas- 
tor. 

About  1857,  a  little  handful  of  Presbyterians  and 
a  few  sympathizers  decided  to  build  a  church  if  the\^ 
could  secure  a  lot.  About  this  time  Mr.  James  Love, 
of  Liberty,  Mo.,  who  owned  some  lots  in  town,  came 
to  visit  Mr.  James  B.  Leeper,  whose  wife  was  a  Pres- 
byterian-. When  asked  to  give  a  lot,  Mr.  Love  gladly 
consented  and  gave  a  deed  in  which  he  provided  that 
it  should  remain  the  propertj^  of  the  church  so  long  as 
used  for  a  church  lot.  Messrs.  J.  B.  Leeper  and  W.  C. 
Samuel  were  chosen  Trustees,  and  the  people  began  to 
get  means  and  material  together  for  the  building,  which 
was  to  be  a  one-story  brick  structure.  After  enough 
material  had  been  secured,  Mr.  John  Smclare,  who  w^as 
a  Presbyterian,  did  the  masonr\^  work. 

After  the  church  was  completed  and  furnished, 
Messrs.  Thomas  B.  Jones,  and  Henry  Lansing  were 
elected  elders,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Singleton  came  to  preach 


64  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTE'RY. 

for  the  church.  After  he  had  been  preaching  for  some 
time,  the  war  broke  out,  and  soldiers  took  possession 
of  the  church.  They  took  down  the  bell  and  sold  it, 
and  put  a  lot  of  negroes  in  the  church.  The  Elders 
and  Trustees  appealed  to  the  Governor,  who  ordered 
the  negroes  removed.  A  soldier  who  had  formerly 
been  a  Presbyterian  preacher,  and  whose  sympathies 
were  with  the  church  people,  asked  to  conduct  a  school 
in  the  church.  Permission  to  do  so  \vas  given,  and 
thus  they  kept  possession  of  the  building. 

After  the  close  of  the  v-ar,  in  the  year  1866,  the 
real  church  organization  was  perfected  with  a  mem- 
bership of  twenty-seven,  whose  names  follow:  Greenup 
Bird,  3 Irs.  J.  C.  Bird,  John  Campbell,  ]\[ary  Campbell, 
George  Dnnn,  Mrs.  E.  L.  Ellis,  Newton  Howell,  Nancy 
IJoAvelL  ]>.]rs.  Elizabeth  Leeper,  Jacob  Laferty,  Mar- 
garet Laferty,  John  C.  Laferty,  Miss  E.  J.  Laferty, 
Miss.  Margaret  Laferty,  E.  S.  IMoore,  ^fartha  Moore, 
Mrs.  J.  T*.  iMoore,  Geo.  W.  Outcult,  Mrs.  Out- 
cult,  Benj.  Outcult,  Mrs.  Isabelle  Outcult,  Mrs. 
Lucy  A.  Pinkerton,  Wm.  Rhea,  Elizabeth  Ilhea, 
Mrs.  Ellen  K.  Samuel,  Samuel  Standish  and  Lucinda 
Standish.  Gj-eenup  Bird  and  NeAvton  Howell  were 
elected  elders. 

Rev.  John  W.  Pinkerton  was  the  pastor,  and  the 
other  ministers  who  have  filled  the  pulpit  from 
1866  to  1907  are  Samuel  Sawyer,  John  A.  Pinkerton.  B. 
A.  Williamson,  AVm.  D.  Patton,  J.  A.  McKelvey,  H.  U. 
Shocklev,  W.  R.  McElrov.  Georoe  Miller.  Wm  J.  Hat- 
field, James  H.  Shields,  Thos.  A.  Scott  and  J.  F.  Fet- 
terolf. 

The  elders  diirino-  the  same  period  are  G.  Bird,  N. 
Howell,  iMorgan  Tjawson,  Peter  Outcult,  John  C.  Harlan, 
E.  S.  Osgood  John  McNeil,  Jacob  S.  Funk,  Chas.  Her- 
riman,  H  M.  Hrtton,  J.  M.  Gross,  M.  H.  Wilcox,  R. 
S.  Moore,  Geo.  S.  Reed,  Hiram  F.  Woodford,  J.  W. 
Elliott,  Arcb.  ]\L..jors,  Dr.  Geo.  A.  Gordon,  E.  O.  Smiley, 
James  AA^.  Samiiel,  C.  F.  Wikofl',  Campbell  Crossen  and 
Albert  Faultinson. 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTE'RY.  65 

In  the  year  1892,  a  new  church  building,  costin.'^: 
$14,000,  was  erecten,  and  the  church  became  self  sus- 
taining. 

This  church  owes  a  great  deal  to  its  women,  who 
have  labored  faithfully  with  their  prayers  and  with 
their  hands.  These  are  some  of  the  most  faithful :  Mrs. 
John  McNeil,  Mrs.  Morgan  Lamson,  Mrs.  R.  S.  Moore, 
Mrs.  L.  N.  Barker,  Mrs.  Frank  Leaver,  Mrs.  Bissett, 
Mrs.  Geo.  Milbank,  Mrs.  J.  B.  Ostrancler,  Mrs.  Wm. 
Summerville,  Mrs.  A.  R.  Smiley,  Mrs.  C.  N.  Smiley, 
Mrs.  David  Gordon,  Mrs.  E.  F.  Blake,  Mrs.  Wm.  Crei- 
len.  Miss  Ellen  Diegelman  and  Miss  Alice  Woodford. 

J.  M.  Gross,  Superintendent  of  the  public  school, 
was  a  man  thoroughly  acquainted  with  his  Bible.  He 
always  tau^rht  the  young  ladies'  class  in  Sabbath  school, 
and  to  sit  uncler  his  teaching  made  you  feel  as  if  you 
Avould  like  to  be  doing  something  for  the  Master. 

M.  H.  Wilcox  loved  music,  and  for  a  long  time  he 
AVMs  organist  and  led  the  choir. 

To  R.  S.  Moore,  more  than  any  other  one  person, 
this  church  owes  a  debt  of  gratitude.  An  attorney  by 
profession,  he  was  once  elected  Representative  from 
this  District.  A  man  of  deep  spirituality,  he  left  his 
■  own  o]:)inion  in  the  background,  and  did  the  thing  that 
v/as  best  for  the  church.  He  was  S.  S.  Superintendent 
i'or  eight  years,  missing  only  one  Sunday  in  all  that 
time.  Tn  his  death  the  church  suffered  a  loss  it  has 
never  been  able  to  fill. 

Geo.  S.  Reed,  still  one  of  the  elders  of  the  church, 
has  served  it  faithfully.  For  a  long  time  he  was  the 
most  liberal  contributor  the  church  had. 

Hiram  F.  Woodford,  though  greatly  afflicted  by 
disease,  was  always  at  prayer  meeting.  Sabbath  school 
and  church  services,  s'ctting  a  splendid  example.  He 
gave  a  noble  posterity  to  the  church  which  is  still  reap- 
ing the  fruits  of  his  labor.  Mrs.  Chas  H.  Bierkemper, 
now  m.issionary  to  the  Navajo  Indians  in  Arizona,  is 
one  of  his  daughters. 

J.  W.  Elliott,  who  still  serves  as  elder,  a  man  of 
—5 


66  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

good  judgment  and  a  liberal  giver,  has  been  a  great 
help  to  the  church  in  every  way. 

G.  A.  Gordon,  who  came  into  the  church  on  profes- 
sion of  his  faith  in  1893,  and  was  elected  elder  the 
same  year,  was  proud  of  his  church  and  wanted  to  see 
it  progress.    His  death  was  a  great  loss  to  it. 

E.  0.  Smiley,  first  a  deacon  and  then  an  elder,  a 
young  man  who  ever  had  the  good  of  the  church  at 
heart,  folloAved  Mr.  Moore  as  Sunday  School  Superin- 
tendent, missing  scarcely  a  Sunday  for  eight  years,  and 
until  his  removal  to  Oklahoma,  in  1902. 

James  W.  Samuel,  who*  came  into  the  church  at 
the  age  of  twelve  years  and  was  elected  deacon  when 
quite  a  young  man,  sang  in  the  choir  for  twenty  years, 
taught  the  Bible  Class  for  two  years,  and  was  clerk 
of  Session  till  his  death  in  1904. 

Since  the   above   was  written,   Messrs.   F.   E.   Riley 
and  Gilladette  have  been  added  to  the  Session. 


.  The  Graham  Church  was  organized  July  26,  1860, 
by  Revs.  J.  G.  Fackler  and  AY.  D.  Symington.  A  Coun- 
ty History,  in  the  Kansas  City  Library,  says  the  church 
was  organized  "in  a  handsome  union  church  built  in 
1856,  and  that  the  charter  members  were  Aaron  Cole, 
Mary  Cole,  John  Cowen,  Mary  E.  Cowen,  Eliz.  Gres- 
ham,  Eliz.  McCoy,  A.  E.  Rea,  Sarah  Vinsonhaler, 
Henry  Walker,  Martha  Walker  and  Mary  Waterman." 

The  first  pastor  of  whom  we  have  any  record  was 
W.  M.  Stryker,  who  came  in  1864.  Since  then  are  N.  H. 
Smith,  M.  L.  Anderson,  W.  G.  Thomas,  A.  D.  Work- 
man, B.  D.  Luther,  A.  W.  Benson,  D.  C.  Smith,  J.  N. 
Young,  E.  W.  Symonds,  W.  AYeaver,  C.  P.  Blayney,  W. 
E.  Caldwell,  H.  P.  Alexander  and  Jer.  Moore. 

The  roll  of  elders,  so  far  as  known,  is  Peter  Maurer, 
J.  H.  Bohart,  Wm.  Eshelman,  John  L.  Taylor,  Harlan 
Bohart,  Amos  C.  Hutchinson  and  Edward  R.  Taylor. 
A  church  costing  $2,200  was  built  in  1872. 

That  no  fuller  account  of  this  ever  reliable  church 
and  its  worthies  can  be  given,  is  a  great  disappointr 
ment. 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  67 


1861-1866. 

This  period  contribiiterl  but  little  to  the  upbuilding^ 
of  Christ's  kin.sdom  in  this  section  and  much  to  its 
tearint'-  down.  The  terrible  desolations  and  the  fearful 
wrecking-  of  that  sad  reion  of  disorder  appear  in  the 
fact  that  of  the  twenty-one  churches  reported  in  1859 
by  J^exington  Presbytery,  only  four.  Clear  Creek 
(Bethel),  Mt.  Zion,  Savannah  and  AVeston,  ever  .ap- 
peared ag-GJn  on  the  roll.  The  Presbytery  of  Upier 
Missouri  did  not  suffer  quite  as  severely,  ten  of  the 
twenty-four  churches  reported  in  1859  being  in  exist- 
ence in  1869. 

The  history  of  the  Sampson  Creek  Church  gives  a 
glimpse  of  the  lamentable  conditions  prevalent.  This 
church  appears  in  the  0.  S.  General  Assembly  Minutes 
for  1853,  as  having  eleven  members  and  being  vacant. 
Rev.  John  N,  Young  began  his  labors  there  in  1855,  or 
later,  but  no  exact  dates  can  be  given  about  anything. 
Tradition  gives  James  and  Samuel  Edmiston,  Allen  Mc- 
Conkey,  Daniel  Waiker,  and  Jeremiah  Young  and  their 
wives  as  among  the  earh^  members.  The  people  built 
a  nice  church  about  eleven  miles  southeast  of  Albany, 
near  White  Oak  Creek.  They  were  a  colony  from 
North  Carol nia,  and  when  that  state  seceded,  the 
trouble  began.  Mr.  Young  says:  "I  went  there  to  hold 
a  Communion  service.  Instead  of  doing  so,  I  found 
myself  detained  by  my  own  parishioners.  I  told  them 
I  vrould  go  to  the  church  and  there  tell  them  what  I 
thought  of  their  conduct.  My  speech  melted  some  of 
them  to  tears,  and  they  pressed  around  me  asking  my 
forgiveness.  I  directed  them  to  ask  forgiveness  of 
(rod.  Thinking  it  would  turn  out  at  last  for  good.  I 
called  for  my  horse  and  went  home.  It  was  my  last 
interview.  In  a  few  days  their  beautiful  church  was 
in  ashes.  The  congregation  scattered  and  never  rallied 
again.  One  family,  that  of  Jeremiah  Young,  remained 
true  to  their  country  and  their  church,  and  transferred 
their  membership  to  Albany." 


68  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

The  following  account  of  the  Plattsburg  Church 
was  furnished  in  August,  1906,  by  the  pastor,  Rev.  H.  P. 
McClintic. 

''Our  records  shoAv  that  a  petition  was  presented, 
April  5,  1861,  to  Upper  Missouri  Presbytery,  in  session 
at  the  Crooked  River  Church,  for  the  organization  of 
a  church  here,  signed  by  the  following:  James  Burr, 
Mrs.  Jane  L.  Burr,  Ira  Dunham,  Matilda  Edgar,  Mrs. 
C.  M.  Hooper,  Mrs.  S.  L.  Hooper,  Wm.  P.  Hooper,  Mrs. 
M.  E.  Ilughurt,  Mrs.  A.  0.  Morgan,  R.  S.  Morgan, 
Cynthia  Smawley,  H.  C.  Smawley,  J.  J.  Smawley,  Mrs.  . 
M.  E.  Smawley,'^Mrs.  M.  Smith,  Mrs.  H.  E.  Snowden, 
Esther  J.  Trimble,  James  W.  Trimble,  Mrs.  Amelia 
Turner,  R.  R.  Turner  and  N.  H.  Whitehead.  The  pe- 
tition was  granted  and  Revs.  J.  C.  Barnes,  C.  A.  Wiley, 
and  R.  S.  Shackelford  were  appointed  a  committee  to 
meet  in  Plattsburg,  Saturday,  April  26,  and  to  organ- 
ize a  church  if  the  way  be  clear.  This  Committee  met 
here  on  the  day  appointed,  using  the  Methodist  Church. 
Dr.  Barnes  preached  from  Hebrews  12  :28.  The  church 
was  duly  organized.  Dr.  J.  Burr  and  W.  P.  Hooper  be- 
ing elected  ruling  elders,  and  N.  H.  Whitehead,  deacon. 
These  were  ordained  and  installed  on  the  27th,  and 
W.  P.  Hooper  made  Clerk  of  Session.  C.  A.  Wiley  was 
'solicited'  to  be  their  stated  supply  till  the  fall  meeting 
of  presbytery,  for  one-fourth  of  his  time,  and  he  be- 
came their  first  pastor. 

"During  the  year  1863,  Rev.  John  Scott  was  Moder- 
ator of  the  Session.     We  have  no  further  record  till 

1866,  at  which  time  Rev.  J.  P.  Fox  is  moderator.     In 

1867,  Rev.  Wm.  Dickson  is  moderator ;  in  1869,  Dr.  A. 
P.  Forman;  in  1870,  Rev.  C.  W.  Price,  and  he  con- 
tinued so  till  1875.  Their  next  pastor  was  John  P. 
Foreman,  from  1875  to  1882 ;  Rev.  J.  A.  D.  Hughes,  1882 
to  1887. 

"Mrs.  A.  0.  Morgan  is  the  only  charter  member 
left.  Her  husband,  R.  S.  Morgan,  died  recently.  He 
was  truly  a  godly  man." 


The  Mt.  Olive  congregation  was  organized  April  28, 
1861,  by  Rev.  Robert  E.  Speer,  in  the  McCollum  school 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRE-SBYTERY.  69 

house,  with  Jane  Buzzard,  John  Buzzard,  Eliz.  J.  Hef- 
ner, Eliza  Kelly,  Geo.  W.  Kelly,  Alexander  McCollum, 
Martin  Rhea,  Thos.  Smith  and  Susan  Whidbee,  as  mem- 
bers. A.  McCollum  and  T.  Smith  were  chosen  elders. 
The  former  served  as  Clerk  of  Session  from  the  organ- 
ization till  his  death,  December  17,  1898.  He  was  al- 
ways faithful  to  the  cause  of  Christ,  and  there  were 
times  when  this  church  would  have  been  a  thing  of  the 
past  had  it  not  been  for  the  faithful  work  of  Bro.  Mc- 
Collum in  holding  up  and  keeping  the  church  together. 

The  roll  of  elders,  including  the  above,  is  John  Bar- 
rick,  Edward  Hutchinson,  AVm.  Mockbee,  Wyly  Milli- 
gan,  W.  L.  Hefner,  Thos.  Alexander,  Wm.  Hendren, 
M.  Y.  Hillyard,  Lewis  Hendren,  Frank  Coffman,  Alex. 
Murray,  John  A.  Stone,  S.  H.  Hefner,  Walter  Murray 
and  Geo.  Hendren.  The  deacons,  from  the  organiza- 
tion till  now  are  Lewis  Hendren,  Wm.  Kemp,  Henry 
Buzzard,  S.  H.  Hefner,  John  McCollum  and  C.  T.  Mor- 
ris. 

The  ministers  who  have  served  the  church  are 
R.  E.  Speer,  — .  Scoggins,  Amos  Coen,  W.  N.  Nickell, 
W.  D.  Wood,  M.  E.  Gaston,  Levi  Henshaw,  J.  H.  Tharp, 
H.  C.  Shook,  J.  W.  McGee,  H.  B.  Bearing,  E.  J.  Adams, 
S.  S.  Hardin,  J.  R.  Adkins,  Walter  Bradley,  E.  L.  Upte- 
grove  and  Henry  A.  Brown. 

The  church,  a  frame  building,  is  six  miles  north 
of  Bethany. 

For  the  above  we  are  indebted  to  Elder  Lewis  Hen- 
dren, Clerk  of  Session. 


According  to  Dr.  E.  B.  Sherwood's  History  of  Platte 
Presbytery,  published  in  1888,  the  Union,  since  called 
Empire  Prairie  Church,  was  organized  June  18,  1861. 
This  date  is  doubtless  correct,  as  the  early  records  were 
not  destroyed  (by  fire,  with  Elder  Manley's  house)  till 
in  October,  1895. 

Elder  Sylvester  S.  Manley,  who  came  from  Canton, 
Pa.  in  1861,  who  has  been  an  elder  for  thirty-three 


70  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

years  and  has  probably  attended  more  meetings  of 
Platte  Presbytery  than  any  other  elder  in  it,  gives  the 
following:  "This  clmrch  was  organized  by  Rev.  J.  N. 
Young,  in  a  Cumberland  Presbyterian  church  one  mile 
south  of  Flag  Springs,  and  was  named  Union  as  every 
man  present  w^as  a  'Union'  man.  It  is  really  the  suc- 
cessor of  a  Presbyterian  church  which  existed  and  held 
services  near  Flag  Springs  a  number  of  years  before 
this  date.  The  charter  members  were  George  and  Mar- 
tha Boyles,  Martin  and  Martha  Boyles,  Richard  W. 
Shepard  and  w^ife  and  Mrs.  T.  C.  Simpson.  Martin 
Boyles  was  the  first  elder.  The  roll  of  elders  is  Martin 
Boyles,  R.  W.  Shepard,  James  Ilowitt,  Matthew  Mc- 
Kinney,  S.  S.  Manley,  Elisha  Coleman,  E.  Johnson, 
Robert  Bonham,  Roderick  Bonham,  L.  P.  Munson  and 
A.  B.  Wray. 

"Among  the  pastors  are  J.  N.  Young,  M.  L.  Ander- 
son, James  B.  Akey,  James  M.  Morrison,  F.  G.  Strange, 
F.  E.  Thompson,  W.  Weaver,  John  B.  Rice  (deposed 
later  for  immorality),  S.  W.  Richards,  James  Reed, 
F.  W.  Grossman,  U.  G.  Schell  and  D.  M.  Boyer.  The 
church  was  erected  in  1873,  at  a  cost  of  $1400. 

"Among  the  faithful  workers  in  the  early  days 
w^ere  J.  Howitt  and  wife,  R.  Bonham  and  wife,  Sophia 
Bonham,  Jane  Brown  and  Mrs.  E.  Johnson;  later  Rod- 
erick Bonham  and  wife,  A.  B.  "Wray  and  wife,  Wm. 
Vanatta  and  wife  and  C.  A.  Manley  and  wife." 

Rev.  J.  M.  Morrison,  pastor  in  1876,  writes:  "J. 
Howitt,  M.  IMcKinney,  R.  W\  Shepard,  S.  S.  Manley 
and  R.  Bonham,  all  elders  then  or  later,  of  Union 
Church,  are  w^orthy  of  the  highest  praise.  They  were 
all  staunch  Christian  men,  honoring  their  profession 
by  their  godly  lives  and  their  activity  in  the  services 
of  God  whom  they  loved  and  delighted  to  honor.  Their 
hearts  went  out  to  the  unsaved.  Earnest — often  agon- 
izing— were  their  prayers  in  behalf  of  the  impenitent 
and  God  honored  their  efforts  and  gave  them  'souls 
for  their  hire.'  Taking  delight  in  communing  with 
God  and  in  associating  with  His  people,  they  were  al- 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  71 

ways  in  their  places,  whether  in  the  public  services  of 
the  sanctuary,  the  prayer-meeting  or  the  Sabbath 
school.  And  with  their  means  they  liberally  supported 
the  church  and  her  various  agencies. 

''No  less  praise  is  due  to  a  few  devoted,  earnest, 
faithful  women  of  Union  Church.-  Mrs.  Peter  Fleming, 
Mrs.  R.  W.  Shepard,  Mrs.  M.  McKinney,  Mrs.  S.  S. 
Manley  and  Mrs.  John  and  Mrs.  Robert  Bonham  took 
^n  active  part  in  the  work  of  the  church.  They  did 
what  they  could,  and  to  them  is  owing  in  great  meas- 
ure, the  success  of  the  prayer  meeting  and  the  Sabbath 
school.  They  were  regular  in  attendance  and  took  part 
in  the  exercises,  and  their  testimonies  and  prayers 
were  'a  power.'  " 


The  "Westminster  Church  of  St.  Joseph,  was  organ- 
ized by  Dr.  George  I.  King,  of  Quincy,  111.,  November 
9,  1863,  ''to  furnish  a  church  home  for  those  who  were 
loyal  to  the  United  States  Government  during  those 
dark  days,  and  brave  enough  to  let  it  be  known  amid 
the  prevailing  disloyalty. ' '  The  charter  members  were 
Guy  C.  Barton,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Harvey  Bradley,  Mrs. 
Joseph  Craig,  G.  F.  Dexter,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  De  Clue, 
Allen  L.  Gilkison,  Elbridge  Gurney,  Mrs.  S.  P.  Hyde, 
Henry  Lambrite,  Jerome  C.  Lambrite,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Joseph  Lambrite,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Lyon,  Thomas 
McFarland,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  F.  Maxwell,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Willis  M.  Sherwood  and  Mrs.  Mary  Thompson, 
fourteen  of  whom  had  withdrawn  from  the  Sixth  Street 
Church.  E.  Gurney  and  Joseph  Lambrite  were  chosen 
elders  and  Geo.  Lyon  and  R.  F.  Maxwell,  deacons. 

Rev.  Benj.  B.  Parsons,  the  first  pastor,  was  called 
in  February,  1864,  at  a  salary  of  $1,200,  paya- 
ble quarterly,  in  advance.  In  April,  1865,  a  lot  at  the 
corner  of  Seventh  and  Felix  streets  was  bought  for 
$3,000,  and  the  erection  of  a  chapel  begun.  ' '  We  held 
our  weekly  prayer  meeting  in  a  one-story  house  on 
the  same  lot  on  which  we  were  building,  and  during 
one  of  these  meetings,  a  pistol  ball  entered  a  window. 


72  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRE'SBYTERY. 

passed  over  our  heads  and  lodged  in  the  opposite  wall. ' ' 
The  first  report  of  the  church  to  Presbytery  was: 
"Thirty  members;  $6180  collected  and  paid  out."  The 
chapel  was  finished  in  1866,  at  a  cost  of  $21,000,  in- 
cluding the  lot.  In  October,  1872,  by  what  was  prac- 
tically an  exchange,  Westminster  Church  came  into 
possession  of  the  building  at  the  corner  of  Sixth  and 
Faraon  streets  (see  sketch  of  Sixth  Street  Church), 
which  it  occupied  till  it  removed  in  1895,  to  the  new 
brick  church  at  the  corner  of  Twenty-first  and  Jule 
streets,  built  at  a  cost  of  about  $13,000,  of  which 
$5,000  came  from  the  sale  of  the  old  building  and  the 
rest  was  raised  by  the  church. 

Dr.  Parsons  resigned  in  January,  1868,  and  March 
11,  1868,  Rev.  Henry  Bullard,  who  began  his  labors  on 
the  third  of  May  and  is  still  the  beloved  pastor, 
was  called.  Rev.  Joel  Kennedy  supplied  the  church 
during  the  interval. 

Westminster  was  a  missionary  church  from  the  firsts 
and  the  coming  and  life  service,  later,  of  a  pastor  so 
remarkably  in  sympathy  with  the  "common  people,"" 
has  deepened  and  intensified  the  missionary  spirit. 
Most  wisely  it  worked  among  the  young.  Its  first  mis- 
sion Sunday  school  was  in  a  colored  Baptist  church  on 
Francis  street,  and  was  turned  over  to  the  First  Baptist 
Church  in  1869,  in  a  very  satisfactory  and  promising 
condition.  ^Meanwhile,  Westminster  Chapel,  costing 
(with  the  land)  $1600,  was  built  at  the  corner  of  Third 
and  Isabelle  streets,  and  a  Sunday  school  opened  in  it 
in  September,  1869.  Mr.  S.  M.  Markle,  superintendent 
of  the  first  mission  Sunday  school,  was  appointed  to 
superintend  this  one,  which  was  also  a  gratifying  suc- 
cess from  the  first.  The  North,  now  the  Third  Street 
Church,  grew  out  of  this.  The  same  summer  a  Sun- 
day school,  which  resulted  in  the  organization  of  the 
Oak  Grove  Church,  was  reorganized  at  the  Maxwell 
school  house,  at  the  request  of  ^Ir.  Logan  Maxwell. 
Mr.  Bullard  preached  several  years  alternately,  either 
in  the  afternoon  or  evening,  at  these  two  points  until 
supplied,  and  when  they  were  vacant. 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  73 

The  next  mission  enterprise  was  undertaken  in  an 
unsupplied  neighborhood  north  and  west  of  Mt.  Mora. 
A  Sunday  school  was  organized  in  May  1889,  in  Hope 
Chapel  at  the  corner  of  Thirteenth  and  Highly  streets, 
and  Mr.  Frank  J.  Behne  was  appointed  superintendent. 
This  developed,  in  1893,  into  the  now  flourishing  Hope 
Church.  "During  nearly  four  years,  though  living 
most  of  the  time  twenty-seven  blocks  away  from  Hope 
Chapel,  Mr.  Behne  has  been  absent  only  three  times, 
twice  because  of  sickness,  and  once  when  absent  from 
the  city." 

The  elders  who  have  served  the  church  are  Joseph 
Lambrite,  Elbridge  Gurney,  Willis  M.  Sherwood,  John 
De  Clue,  Robert  F.  Maxwell,  James  A.  Nye,  Hans  Niel- 
son,  Wm.  A.  Baker,  Geo.  B.  Armstrong,  Wm.  K.  Adams, 
Henry  M.  Butler,  Samuel  P.  Huston,  Herschel  Bartlett, 
Frank  J.  Behne,  James  A.  Plotner,  James  R.  Martin, 
Walter  J.  Sanders,  Geo.  D.  Crothers,  Frank  L.  Schrei- 
ber,  Fred  H.  Reynolds,  John  W.  Gaver,  Edward  T. 
Markle,  Geo.  M.  Johnson,  C.  C.  Russell  and  Chas.  D. 
Bell. 

Rev.  Chas.  H.  Derr,  Chenchow,  Hunan,  China,  is 
the  Foreign  Missionary  pastor.  Silas  F.  Johnson,  M. 
D.,  connected  with  our  Africa  Mission  for  the  last  fif- 
teen years,  was  a  member  of  the  Westminster  Church. 

The  following  tribute  to  Elder  John  De  Clue,  who 
died  October  23,  1899,  is  from  his  long-time  pastor : 

John  De  Clue  was  born  of  Huguenot  stock,  in  the 
city  of  New  York,  January  6,  1821.  He  served  three 
years  in  the  navy  as  carpenter's  mate,  in  the  early 
forties.  Admiral  Foote  was  then  Lieutenant  and  Ex- 
ecutive Officer  of  the  ship. 

Mr.  De  Clue  came  to  St.  Joseph  in  the  summer  of 
1859.  His  name  appears  among  those  who  withdrew 
from  the  only  Presbyterian  church  then  existing  in  the 
city  to  organize  the  Westminster  Church  in  November, 
1863.     Two  years  later,   December   13,   1865,   he   was 


74  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

elected  elder  and  held  the  office  until  his  death.  None 
of  the  elders  won  a  higher  place  in  the  confidence  of 
the  Presbytery,  to  which  he  was  often  sent  by  his 
brethren.  He  was  Commissioner  to  the  General  As- 
sembly four  or  five  times.  In  ecclesiastical  affairs  as 
elsewhere,  his  rare  ability,  quickness  to  see,  wisdom 
to  plan  and  promptness  and.  courage  to  execuro, 
placed  him  in  the  forefront. 

A  stranger — with  a  wife  and  baby  to  support,  and 
only  his  trade  to  depend  upon;  a  Northerner — intense- 
ly loyal  and  outspoken  in  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  in  the  bitter 
times  of  war,  he  accepted  his  discharge  from  a  railroad 
bridge  gang,  rather  than  work  on  Sunday.  Years  af- 
ter, when  he  had  become  the  most  prominent  leader 
in  political  councils,  the  President  of  the  Public  Library 
Board,  and  one  of  the  heaviest  and  best  trusted  con- 
tractors and  builders  in  the  city,  he  said  his  prosperity 
began  from  that  date,  for  when  men  forsook  him,  the 
Lord  took  him  up.  What  better  indication  could  be 
given  of  the  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  those  who 
knew  him  best,  than  this  ?  He  was  authorized  by  West- 
minster Church  and  Society  to  build  their  present  house 
of  worship  upon  his  own  estimate  of  the  cost,  and  noth- 
ing but  a  floor  plan  to  show  what  it  would  be  like. 
The  last  four  years  of  his  life  were  brightened  b;^  fre- 
quent assurances  from  the  people  that  they  were 
pleased  with  the  job. 

For  thirty  years  he  was  his  pastor's  trusted  coun- 
selor and  most  intimate  friend. 


The  Session  Book  of  the  Dawn  Presbyterian  Church 
says:  "Being  desirous  of  obtaining  the  organization 
of  a  Presbyterian  church  in  Dawn,  Livingston  Co.,  Mo., 
a  number  of  Presbj^terians  and  others  petitioned  the 
Presbytery  of  Des  Moines  to  appoint  a  committee  for 
this  purpose.     In  answer  to  this  request.  Presbytery, 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  75 

at  its  meeting  in  April,  1865,  appointed  Rev.  Wm.  Reed 
said  Committee." 

On  the  second  Saturday  of  June,  1865,  Rev.  Wm. 
Reed  organized,  in  the  school  house  in  Dawn,  a  church 
with  the  following  members:  Abraham  and  Mary 
Brown,  Miss  Melissa  Brown,  Wyley  and  Nancy  J.  El- 
liott and  Robert  and  Elizabeth  Reed.  (A  history  of 
Livingston  county  gives  also  Mary  M.  and  Minerva 
Brown,  John  Reed  and  wife.  Dr.  Rice  (Dice)  and  wife, 
and  Dr.  Shields  and  wife.  Probably  these  were  early 
members.)  A.  Brown  was  unanimously  elected  elder 
and  installed  the  next  day,  when  Mrs.  Hannah  Mc- 
Clanathan  was  received  on  certificate.  In  November, 
1865,  R.  M.  and  Ellinor  McLawry  and  Thomas  H.  and 
Margaret  Trussell  were  received.  In  1870,  a  frame 
house  of  worship,  costing  about  $1800,  was  erected. 
The  first  trustees,  elected  in  1873,  were  Wyley  Elliott, 
Dr.  T.  R.  Dice  and  Henry  Bushnell. 

The  following  ministers  have  served  this  church: 
Wm.  Reed,  J.  D.  Beard,  J.  Hood,  James  Reed,  Geo. 
Case,  John  Hawkes,  E.  M.  Palmer  and  J.  T.  Boyer.  The 
roll  of  elders  is :  Abraham  Brown,  James  J.  Nellis, 
James  D.  Graham,  Wyley  Elliott,  E.  J.  James,  Frank 
B.  Elliott,  Dr.  R.  W.  Murray,  C.  S.  Bush  and  Thomas 
Griffiths. 

"The  Welsh  Calvinistic  Church  had  no  connection 
with  this  church  and  was  disbanded  years  ago,  when 
Mr.  Thomas  Griffiths  transferred  his  membership  to  this 
church. ' ' 

For  the  above  we  are  indebted  to  Rev.  James  Reed, 
twice  the  pastor,  and  Elder  Evan  J.  James,  Clerk  of 
Session  for  many,  j^ears.  The  disorder,  disintegration 
and  destitution  of  those  daj^s  is  illustrated  by  the  above 
call  for  help  on  a  Presbytery  of  another  state. 


Mr.  W.  F.  Bradley,  a  student  of  Missouri  Valley 
College,  who  supplied  the  Bethany  Church  in  the  sum- 


76  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRE'SBYTERY. 

mer  of  1907,  furnished  the  following,  having  found  the 
early  records  after  a  long  and  persevering  search: 

The  Bethany  Church  was  organized  September  10, 
1865,  by  Rev.  Robert  E.  Speer,  with  the  following  mem- 
bers: Bethuel  Buck,  Mary  Buck,  John  Holland,  Mar- 
garet Holland,  Margaret  Speer,  Nancy  D.  Speer,  Robert 
Speer,  and  Samuel  P.  Speer.  Bethuel  Buck  was  elected 
elder.  The  following  year  Wm.  G.  Lewis  was  chosen 
elder,  a  position  which  he  filled  with  great  acceptance 
for  several  years.  The  roll  of  Ruling  Elders,  including 
the  above,  is :  J.  A.  Brewer,  Marquis  Gunn,  M.  K.  How- 
ell, H.  L.  Schnatterh^  James  Berry,  Thomas  ]\I.  Alexan- 
der, M.  McCollum,  Amos  Morgan,  Campbell  Crossan, 
J.  S.  Pile,  Thomas  Linthacum,  C.  W.  Gillidett,  J.  R. 
Cunningham,  I.  J.  Wiedner,  A.  J.  Fuller,  AV.  S.  Walker, 
S.  E.  Farmer  and  T.  E.  Stone. 

The  church  has  been  served  by  Robert  E.  Speer,  J. 
W.  French,  J.  M.  Ragan,  J.  IJ.  Tharp,  Amos  Coen,  Levi 
Henshaw,  J.  F.  Rodgers,  J.  W.  McGee,  E.  J.  Adams,  J. 
W.  Duvall,  W.  J.  Willis  and  J.  T.  Hood.  (Edward  D. 
Barnes  came  in  1908.) 

The  court  house  was  used  by  the  congregation  till 
1868,  when  a  handsome  brick  church,  forty  by  fifty, 
seating  350  and  costing  $2,000,  was  erected.  This  w^as 
used  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century,  being  im- 
proved from  time  to  time.  Then,  through  the  labors 
of  Rev.  J.  AV.  McGee,  a  modern  frame  edifice  was  built. 
This  was  dedicated  by  Dr.  H.  W.  Sears.  During  the 
ministry  of  Rev.  E.  J.  Adams  a  beautiful  manse  was 
built,  and  in  1903,  the  church  was  enlarged  by  an  ad- 
dition, thirty  by  thirty-five.  Various  improvements 
and  furnishings,  then  and  since,  have  put  the  church 
in  excellent  condition;  also  it  is  free  from  debt. 


Through  the  kindness  of  Elder  James  AY.  AA^atson, 
Clerk  of  Session  since  1892,  who  was  elected  elder 
September  16,  1877,  we  are  able  to  give  the  follow- 
ing: 

The   Stewartsville  congregation  was   organized  on 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  77 

the  fourth  Sabbath  of  September,  1865,  in  the  Method- 
ist church,  by  Rev.  W.  0.  H.  Perry,  with  J.  W.  Bras- 
ington,  Mary  C.  Brasington,  Elizabeth  Finch,  Milton 
Finch,  Margaret  Hayter,  Eliz.  Perry,  E.  B.  Perry,  G. 
B.  Perry,  li.  A.  Perry,  L.  T.  Perry,  S.  H.  Perry,  W.  C. 
Perry,  Eliz.  Stagg  and  W.  E.  Stagg  as  members. 

J.  W.  Brasington,  L.  T.  Perry  and  W.  E.  Stagg  were 
elected  ruling  elders  and  ordained  by  Rev.  W.  0.  H. 
Perry.  M.  Finch  and  W.  C.  Perry,  having  been  pre- 
viously ordained  ruling  elders,  were  requested  by  the 
congregation  to  form  a  part  of  the  Session.  Since  then 
the  following  have  been  elected  elders :  Wm.  C.  Stagg, 
Jacob  B.  Shewey,  Ambrose  D.  Capps,  James  W.  Wat- 
son, W.  C.  Hamilton,  Daniel  H.  Capps,  Jacob  Hanson, 
E.  T.  Hoggett  and  Abraham  Gregory. 

An  incomplete  list  of  the  ministers  who  have  served 
the  church  is :  F.  M.  Miller,  R.  D.  Miller,  0.  D.  Allen, 
W.  0.  PI.  Perry,  W.  C.  Carter,  James  Froman,  Arthur 
E.  Perry,  Matthew  Patton  and  S.  T.  Divinia.  The  con- 
gregation has  a  fourth  interest  in  the  church,  built  in 
1869. 


78  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRE-SBYTERY. 


1867—1874. 

Dr.  E.  B.  Sherwood,  who  organized  the  Brecken- 
ridge  Church,  puts  the  time  in  February,  1867,  though 
others  set  it  earlier.  Doubtless  it  was  organized  in  the 
winter  of  1866-7.  The  records  were  burned  in  1890, 
lience  no  complete  lists  can  be  given. 

Among  the  ministers  are :  Joel  Kennedy,  John  C. 
Young,  T.  C.  Armstrong,  C.  P.  Blayney,  W.  A.  Cravens, 
L.  H.  Shock,  E.  H.  Bull,  C.  G.  Russell,  W.  E.  Caldwell 
and  James  H.  Weaver;  among  the  elders,  J.  Morton, 
Geo.  S.  Will,  A.  C.  Burbank,  Frank  Ward,  James  Er- 
win,  Anson  Salsbury,  W.  0.  Hart,  A.  L.  Roughmont 
and  H.  H.  Denlon. 

The  first  church  built  in  1867,  was  burned  in  1882, 
and  a  new  one,  costing  about  $1800,  was  erected  in 

1887. 

The  following  sketches  were  furnished  by  one  who 
knew  whereof  he  wrote : 

"In  the  Church  of  Breckenridge  no  one  has  wrought 
more  faithfully,  nor  done  more  to  maintain  and  ad- 
vance the  organization  than  Mrs.  Elizabeth  M.  Rus- 
sel.  Grandma  Russel,  as  she  is  known  to  everyone, 
is  from  that  true  Kentucky  stock  which  adheres  to 
what  it  espouses  with  a  faith  and  purpose  that  does 
not  flag.  She  was  a  charter  member  of  the  church, 
is  now  in  her  ninetieth  year,  and  has  been  at  the  head 
of  every  w^omen's  organization  in  the  church,  first  or 
last.  A  woman  who  was  always  at  the  services,  unless 
stress  of  weather  or  sickness  prevented;  a  veritable 
inspiration  to  her  pastors  and  one  who  would  sacrifice 
to  the  last  for  the  cause  of  her  blessed  Master  and  the 
beloved  church.  God  has  made  very  few  like  Grandma 
Russel;  her  presence  has  ever  been  a  benediction  and 
a  blessing,  in  both  the  home  and  the  church. ' ' 

"Mrs.  Rebecca  Salsbury  was  of  that  Scotch  ances- 
try  of   which  martyrs   are   made,   and   her   sixty-two 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  79 

years  of  life  exemplified  the  spirit  of  her  progenitors. 
She  belonged  to  everybody  who  had  a  need.  She  had 
been  bought  with  the  precious  blood  of  Jesus,  and  her 
little  sacrifices  she  deemed  small  compared  with  His. 
She  was  a  charter  member  of  the  church  at  New  York 
Settlement,  and  for  years  was  one  of  the  leading  work- 
ers in  that  country  church.  In  1890  she  removed  to 
Breckenridge,  and  ever  after  was  considered  as 
an  essential  to  the  progress  of  the  work.  Together 
with  Grandma  Russel,  you  might  see  her  coming  and 
going  to  the  Missionary  or  Aid  Society,  and  the  prayer 
service  was  her  soul's  delight.  She  did  not  hesitate  to 
rebuke  sin  wherever*  found  and  in  whatever  guise  it 
appeared,  but  she  was  one  of  those  rare  characters  who 
could  speak  reproachfully  and  leave  no  sting  in  the 
heart  of  the  one  concerned  most  deeply.  She  finished 
her  work  here  August  7,  1907,  but  her  influence  is  felt, 
and  her  Avork  is  being  carried  on  by  others  and  younger 
ones  who  remember  her  most  kindly." 


The  following  is  condensed  from  a  very  full  history 
of  the  Hamilton  Church,  furnished  by  Tinsley  Brown, 
M.  D.,  long-time  Clerk  of  Session: 

The  Hamilton  Church  was  organized  August  18, 
1867,  by  Rev.  J.  P.  Fox,  with  Mrs.  Jane  Collins,  Wm. 
and  Lucinda  Gibson,  Andrew  and  Elizabeth  King,  Miss 
Mary  E.  McAdoo,  Samuel  Quick,  Wm.  G.  and  Lucinda 
Stewart,  Geo.  and  Mary  Wilson  and  S.  P.  Wilson  as 
members.  W.  Gibson  and  S.  P.  Wilson  were  chosen 
elders  January  4,  1868,  and  W.  G.  Stewart,  Dr.  S.  V. 
Stoller  and  James  McAdoo  were  elected  trustees.  Ser- 
vices were  held  in  various  halls  and  churches  till  in 
1872,  when  the  Free  Methodist  church  was  bought.  This 
was  used  till  the  spring  of  1899,  when  it  was  replaced 
by  a  handsome  brick-veneered  building,  costing  about 
$4,000,  under  the  supervision  of  Rev.  Geo.  H.  William- 
son, one  of  the  most  noted,  honored  and  inveterate 
church  builders  in  the  State. 


80  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

The  church  has  been  supplied  by  J.  P.  Cox,  Joel 
Kennedy,  Wm.  M.  Reed,  T.  C.  Armstrong,  J.  C.  Young, 
H.  M.  Rogers,  II.  M.  Sydenstricker,  J.  D.  Walkinshaw, 
James  P.  Green,  G.  H.  AVilliamson,  W.  I.  Doole  and 
John  G  Templeton.  The  roll  of  elders  is  S.  P.  Wilson, 
W.  Gibson,  Dr.  S.  Y.  Stoller,  Wm.  F.  Pickell,  C.  A. 
Green,  Dr.  Tinsley  Brown,  Dr.  Wm.  T.  Lindley,  D.  C. 
McDonald,  J.  V.  Ilaughawout,  Finis  A.  ]\Iartin,  Joel 
R.  IMorse,  Geo.  S.  Will,  Hugh  C.  Stockton,  S.  H.  Town, 
Ira  Houghton,  E.  C.  Stewart  and  J.  L.  Morgan. 

This  is  a  healthy,  well  organized  and  active  church, 
and  has  been  self-supporting  since  1890.  Drs.  T.  Brown 
and  W.  T.  Lindley  have  served  continuously  in  the 
Session  for  more  tlian  twenty-five  years. 


But  little  information  about  the  Elk  Horn  Church 
has  been  obtained.  It  was  organized  October  16,  1867, 
tradition  says,  by  Rev.  Daniel  Patton.  Because  of  its 
isolated  situation  it  has  been  very  insufficiently  sup- 
plied Avith  gospel  ministrations,  and  consequently  has 
languished.  Its  church,  valued  at  $500,  is  situated  nine 
miles  northwest  of  Richmond.  In  1907,  D.  W.  Pettus, 
Clerk  of  Session,  C.  D.  Houchin  and  S.  H.  Degraffen- 
reid  were  the  elders. 

August  14th,  1908,  this  church  was  dismissed  by 
Kansas  City  Presbytery  to  the  Methodist  Church, 
South.  This  was  done  that  the  IMaster's  work  might 
be  carried  on  more  efficiently,  because  there  was  no 
other  Presbyterian  church  with  which  it  could  reason- 
ably be  grouped.  This  is  a  delightful  example  of  the 
spirit  of  comity  and  loyalty  to  the  Master,  which,  we 
trust,  will  grow  mightily  and  prevail. 


A  Presbyterian  church  was  organized  in  Cameron 
about  1859,  probably  by  Rev.  Ralph  Harris,  but  haAdng 
become  disorganized  during  the  Civil  War,  it  was 
dropped  from  the  roll  of  Upper  Missouri  Presbytery 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  81 

September  18,  1865.     Nothing  else  definite  is  known 
a,boiit  this  early  church. 

What  follows  is  almost  Avholly  from  the  records 
very  painstakingly  furnished  by  Miss  Mary  V.  Craig. 

In  1867,  a  movement  being  made  to  build  a  chuifch 
in  connection  with  the  regular  Baptists,  a  Presby- 
terian organization  became  necessary  as  well  as  de- 
sirable, and  Rev.  N.  H.  Smith,  then  residing  at  Oregon, 
visited  the  field.  In  consequence  he  organized  a  church 
.it  the  house  of  Mr.  Peter  Fisher,  on  the  evening  of 
the  twenty-fifth  of  October,  1867,  with  the  following 
members :  Peter  and  Rebecca  Fisher,  Samuel  and 
Maria  Hall,  and  Mrs.  Mary  C.  Harwood.  (A  history 
in  tiie  Kansas  City  Library  adds  Mary  Frame  and 
Nancy  Shults  to  the  preceding.)  P.  Fisher  and  S. 
Hail  w^ere  elected  elders  and  have  been  followed  since 
by  George  Smith,  E.  J.  Wheeler,  M.  J.  Weir,  J.  H. 
Shuts,  J.  R.  Brockman,  P.  H.  Kipp,  H.  W.  Garrett, 
John  Ewing,  H.  C.  Stockton,  H.  E.  Silsbee,  W.  W. 
Howard,  James  Craig,  Thomas  Foy,  H.  B.  Cooper, 
Hugh  A.  Steel,  J.  W.  Rawson,  James  W.  Grant, 
Samuel  M.  Sifers,  J.  C.  Dilliner,  J.  H.  Conley  and  J. 
W.  DeWalt. 

At  the  organization  S.  Hall,  P.  Fisher  and  John  H. 
Shuts  were  chosen  trustees.  December  14,  1870,  the 
Board  of  Trustees  having  met  to  consider  the  erection 
of  a  house  of  worship.  Rev.  J.  M.  Green  being  in  the 
chair,  it  was  decided  to  build  one  and  to  withdraw 
from  the  Baptist  church.  Hence  the  present  church, 
costing  about  $5,000,  which  was  remodeled  in  1890, 
was  built. 

The  church  has  been  supplied  by  N.  H.  Smith, 
J.  N.  Green,  Jos.  H.  France,  J.  H.  Hunter,  J.  C. 
Young,  A.  W  Lawrence,  John  Foy,  W.  A.  Cravens, 
H.  A.  Sawvers,  J.  C.  Hanna,  A.  C.  V.  Skinner,  Geo. 
Miller,  E.  S.  Farrand,  J.  IL  Shields,  E.  W.  Waits  and 
Perry  A.  Tinkham. 


The  Records  of  the  Easton  Church  (U.  S.  A.)  say: 
"In  accordance  with  previous  arrangement,  those 


82  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

who  were  interested  in  the  organization  of  a  Presby- 
terian church  at  Easton,  Mo.,  assembled  at  Forbes' 
Ilall  on  the  ninth  day  of  November,  1867.  Of  those 
who  had  previously  signed  a  paper  requesting  to  be 
organized  into  a  Presbyterian  Church,  the  following 
responded  to  their  names:  Calvin  C.  Colt,  Chester  L. 
Colt  and  Bradford  Morgan  from  the  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Scottsville,  N.  Y. ;  H.  M.  Towne  from  the 
Fort  Street  Church,  Detroit;  Anne  E.  and  Mary  C. 
Starrett  from  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Antioch, 
Mo.;  Mrs.  S.  T.  Butler  from  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Denver,  Colo. ;  Capt.  H.  S.  Buck  from 
111. ;  Mrs.  H.  Buck  from  the  Protest- 
ant Methodist  Church  of  Brookline,  111. ;  W.  A.,  Mrs. 
Anna  M.,  Emma  H.  and  Laura  D.  Irwin  from  the  M^ 
E.  Church  of  Brownsville,  Ind. ;  John  T.  and  Mrs. 
Atlanta  Taylor,  from  a  M.  E.  Church  in  Philadelphia; 
Mrs.  C.  E.  Palmer  from  a  Congregational  Church  in 
Cleveland,  0. ;  John  and  Mrs.  Anna  E.  Reisch  of  the 
United  Brethren  Church ;  Mrs.  Jane  Tuck  of  the  Cum- 
berland Presbyterian  Church,  and  Alex,  and  Mrs. 
Nancy  Starrett  and  Cora  Bell  Morgan,  on  the  profes- 
sion of  their  faith. 

''C.  C.  Colt  and  B.  Morgan  w^ere  chosen  elders,  and 
Alex.  Starrett,  deacon,  and  H.  S.  Buck,  S.  T.  Butler, 
Geo.  Chandler,  Henry  Iba  and  W.  A.  Irwin,  trustees. 
On  December  17,  Calvin  W.  Benight  and  Dr.  Isham 
B.  Talbot  were  added  to  the  Board  of  Trustees." 

Dr.  E.  B.  Sherwood,  the  Presbyterial  Missionary,, 
was  the  organizer.  In  1868,  Ephraim  Bowen  and  Dr. 
Geo.  M.  Loomis  were  added  to  the  Session;  Thomas 
A.  Gray,  in  1869,  and  Hugh  Carmichael,  Alex.  C.  Den- 
ney  and  Horace  Scovill  in  May,  1874.  A  commodious 
house  of  worship,  forty  by  sixty  feet,  was  soon  erected. 
The  Church  prospered  greatly  for  a  time.  A  revival 
in  the  winter  of  1867-8,  brought  in  eighty-eight  mem- 
bers, and  another  in  1870-1,  twenty-two  more.  I'l 
1868,  103  members  were  reported  to  the  General  As- 
sembly, but  in  consequences  of  deaths  and  numerous  re- 
movals caused  by  the  failure  of  the  town  to  become- 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  83: 

an  important  railroad  point,  and  the  ravages  of  the 
hog  cholera,  which  almost  beggared  the  farmers,  only 
fourteen  members  were  reported  in  1884.  In  the 
earlier  years  the  Church  was  regularly  supplied  by 
J.  M.  Green,  T.  D.  Roberts  and  J.  F.  Clarkson,  and 
briefly  by  others,  but  latterly  it  has  been  marked 
"vacant"  all  the  time.  The  community  have  kept  the 
church  in  repair,  and  all  religious  services,  including  an 
evergreen  Union  Sunday  school,  have  been  held  in  it. 

^  Some  time  in  1906,  Platte  Presbytery  A.  trans- 
ferred the  Easton  (C.  P.)  Church  to  Platte  Presbytery 
(U.  S.  A.).  The  united  church,  which  has  been  sup- 
plied by  R.  H.  Craig  and  E.  G.  Haymaker,  has  been 
greatl}^  revived  and  enlarged.  Its  elders  include  J. 
W.  Wright,  H.  Carmichael,  Geo.  S.  Homon,  Wm.  T. 
Davis,  James  M.  Gibson,  Cyrus  Slaybaugh,  John  M. 
Starrett  and  T.  B.  Vaughn. 

The  late  Easton  (C.  P.)  Church  has  (greatly  to 
our  regret)  furnished  no  data.  All  we  can  give  is. 
the  following,  taken  from  the  minutes  of  the  Cumber- 
land General  Assembly  for  1905 :  It  was  then  supplied 
by  Rev.  R.  H.  Craig;  it  had  preaching  once  a  month; 
Dr.  J.  W.  Mays  was  its  clerk  of  session ;  its  membership 
was  fifty-one;  it  had  paid  its  pastor  $140,  and  it  had 
contributed  $14  to  its  Woman's  Board  of  Missions. 

Hugh  Carmichael  had  been,  for  many  years  be- 
fore the  union,  the  only  elder  in  the  church  which 
he  had  served  since  1874.  For  thirty  years  (up  to 
the  union)  he  was  clerk  of  session.  For  a  long  time 
he  was  superintendent  of  the  Sabbath  school.  He 
was  an  active  temperance  worker,  especially  among 
the  young.  Unblessed  with  early  religious  and  edu- 
cational privileges,  he  became  the  pillar  of  the  church 
and  a  mighty  power  for  good.  Modest,  irrepressible, 
and  unswerving  from  duty,  "Uncle  Hugh"  (as  he  was 
familiarly  called  by  all)  held  the  respect  and  good 
will  of  every  citizen  of  Easton. 


The    Lathrop    Church    was    organized    April    12^ 
1868,  at  the  Phelps  school  house,  by  Revs.  J.  P.  Fox 


«4  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

and  N.  H.  Smith,  and  Elder  D.  Cooper,  with  David  C. 
and  Louisa  Barber,  Mrs.  Sarah  Byers,  Stewart  and 
E.  J.  Gilchrist,  Mrs.  Janie  E.  James,  L.  W.  Lee, 
Thomas  H.  McKee,  A.  A.  and  Mrs.  Monroe,  Peter  and 
Jane  Pence,  Alex,  and  Mary  Service,  James  arid  Nancy 
Templeton  and  Mrs.  Sarah  Welsh  as  members.  A.  A. 
Monroe  and  L.  W.  Lee  were  elected  elders. 

With  the  above,  the  roll  of  elders  is  Peter  Pence, 
Silas  W.  Skinner,  D.  C.  Barber,  W.  W.  McKee,  Wm. 
Z.  Thompson,  Cyrus  E.  Green,  Bryant  Welsh,  J.  W. 
Carruthers,  Walter  AVilson,  David  S.  Brillhart,  J.  L 
Coulson,  J.  F.  Stevens,  T.  H.  McKee,  James  H.  Eames 
and  A.  C.  Welsh. 

The  following  ministers,  in  their  successive  order, 
have  served  the  church  :  N.  H.  Smith,  J.  W".  Allen. 
Jos.  H.  France,  H.  Chadeayne,  S.  G.  Fisher,  John  S. 
Gourley,  J.  H.  Hunter,  J.  C.  Young,  AV.'T.  Scott,  J. 
L.  D.  Hughes,  E.  McNair,  John  AVilson,  A.  W.  Mc- 
Glothlan,  T.  B.  Terhune,  L.  H.  Shock,  T.  D.  Roberts, 
David  C.  Davies,  AVm.  H.  Lytle  and  Charles  E.  Ed- 
Avards. 

A  church  building  was  erected  in  1869  and  was 
used  continuously  until  about  1900,  when  it  was  sold 
and  a  newer  and  more  modern  building,  known  as  the 
Calvary  Baptist  Church,  was  purchased.  This  is  now 
occupied  under  the  most  acceptable  ministry  of  the 
Rev.  C.  E.  Edwards. 

The  church  has  always  successfully  maintained 
the  two  essential  auxiliaries  of  a  church,  the  prayer 
meeting  and  the  Sabbath  school,  and  has  been  an  up- 
lifting power  in  the  community.  Among  those  worthy 
of  special  mention  are  Elder  C.  E.  Green,  who  at  all 
times  answered  to  the  call  of  duty,  esteeming  it  a 
privilege,  and  Elder  W.  W.  McKee  and  wife,  strong, 
influential  and  active  members  till  they  were  called 
higher.  The  ministry  of  the  church  has  usually  been 
of  a  high  order  of  intelligence  and  fitness.  Notably 
in  the  list   are   the  names   of  Bros.   France,   McNair, 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  85 

McGlotlilan  and  Terhune.  The  records  of  sessional 
meetings  are  a  tribute  to  some  of  the  Sessional  clerks, 
especially  to  L.  W.  Lee,  S.  W.  Skinner,  W.  W.  Mc- 
Kee,  C.  E.  Green,  J.  W.  Carrnthers  and  J.  I.  Coulson. 
These  records  give  a  good  idea  of  the  activities  of  the 
church,  and  form  a  large  part  of  its  history. 

The   above   is  from   a  fuller  sketch  by   Elder  J. 
M.  Eames,  Clerk  of- Session. 


The  Bethlehem  congregation  was  organized  No- 
vember 4,  1868,  by  Rev.  T.  M.  Crider,  at  the  Grout 
schoolhouse,  Jackson  township,  Grundy  county.  The 
charter  members  were  G.  W.  Alldridge,  J.  S.  AUdridge, 
M.  J.  Alldridge,  W.  E.  Alldridge,  T.  M.  Barnett,  M. 
Bonion,  R.  B.  Bomon,  Jothiel  Boyles,  Mary  T.  Boyles^ 
A.  Huntsinger,  H.  H.  Huntsinger,  M.  W.  Tluntsinger, 
C.  K.  Wood  and  J.  E.  Wood.  T.  M.  Barnett,  J.  Boyles 
and  C.  K.  Wood  were  the  first  elders;  J.  H.  Handel, 
John  Preston,  George  Ward  and  Wm.  Millan  came 
later.  The  church  was  supplied  by  Revs.  I.  Chivington, 
F.  M.  Miller,  L.  F.  Hayes,  C.  B.  Powers,  J.  H.  Tharp 
and  James  Froman.  Their  house  of  w^orship  was 
built  in  King  City  in  1874,  and  probably  the  name  of 
the  church  was  changed  to  King  City  about  that  time. 

The  above  was  furnished  chiefly  by  Mr.  Ephraim 
W.  Salisbury,  Clerk  of  Session. 

In  1906,  a  happy  union  was  effected  between  this 
and  the  King  City  Church  (U.  S.  A.).  The  latter 
church  was  organized  May  1,  1872,  by  Rev.  M.  L. 
Anderson  and  Elder  Matthew  McKinley,  with  the 
following  members:  Eben  E.  and  Cornelia  M.  Black- 
lock,  Thomas  D.  and  Nicolas  Collow,  Geo.  Furguson, 
Chas.  H.  and  Milley  Graham,  A.  J.  and  Mary  J.  Mc- 
Millan, David  McMillan,  W.  J.  and  Anne  J.  McMillan, 
Mary  J.  Morris,  Nancy  J.  Ross,  John  S.  and  S.  0.  Van- 
derveer,  J.  Harvey  and  Caroline  White,  Mathew  and 
Elliza  Williamson,  Wm.  and  Mary  A.  Williamson,  Hat- 
tie  A.  Winchester  and  T.  P.  Winchester.  J.  H.  White 
was   elected   elder.     The   roll   of   elders   included  W 


«6  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

J.  McMillan,  Philip  M.  Adams,  C.  H.  Graham,  T.  Black- 
lock,  Adolph  Stevenson,  John  D.  Venderveer  and  L. 
T.  Monlton.  The  ministers  were  J.  M.  Morrison,  F. 
G.  Strange,  F.  E.  Thompson,  J.  F.  Clarkson,  W. 
Weaver,  J.  B.  Eice,  S.  W.  Richards,  M.  J.  McLeod, 
J.  C.  Hanna,  A.  B.  Herr,  F.  W.  Grossman,  C.  C.  Arm- 
strong and  K.  F.  Cardy.  The  church  was  built  in  1888, 
at  a  cost  of  $2,700. 

For  the  above  we  are  indebted  to  Elder  A.  Steven- 
son, Clerk  of  Session  for  fifteen  years  or  more. 

The  very  efficient  pastor  of  the  united  church  is 
George  E.  Newell. 

In  1906,  Mrs.  C.  M.  Blacklock,  a  teacher  in  the 
Sabbath  school  from  the  first,  sent  some  very  interest- 
ing reminiscences,  from  which  the  following  extracts 
are  made : 

''Our  meetings  were  held  for  years  in  a  school 
house  on  the  open  prairie  which  was  later  destroyed 
by  a  cyclone.  The  country  was  thinly  settled,  and 
the  people  came  from  long  distances  in  farm  Avagons 
and  on  horseback,  from  different  directions  and  with- 
out regard  to  roads,  the  prairie  being  then  unfenced." 
"We  helped  them  (the  Cumberlands)  to  build  a  church 
which  we  used  on  alternate  Sabbaths,  paying  for  wood, 
coal  and  janitor's  salary  for  both  congregations,  as 
rent."  "In  1885,  Rev.  Willis  Weaver  came  to  be  our 
pastor,  and  during  the  three  years  that  he  remained 
with  us,  our  church  took  on  new  life,  and  under  his 
superintendence  and  leadership,  we  built  the  cozy  little 
church  which  we  now  occupy."  "The  members  of 
our  church  were  very  loyal  and  earnest  people,  but 
one  family,  I  think,  should  be  mentioned  as  stalwarts 
in  the  early  history  of  our  church.  I  refer  to  Elder 
Harvey  White  and  his  wife  and  her  two  maiden  sis- 
ters, the  Misses  Rannals.  Of  those  Avho  by  their  strong 
faith  and  deep  spirituality  are  surely  entitled  to  be 
mentioned  as  'Mothers  in  Israel'  are  Mrs.  Janet  Giddis 
Smith,  Mrs.  S.  0.  Vanderveer  and  Mrs.  Nancy  Ross. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  87 

■Grandma  Ross  is  still  with  us,  and  as  much  interested 
in  her  church  as  ever." 

The  first  pastor  writes :  "Harvey  White,  the  elder, 
was  '  one  of  the  few. '  Strong  in  faith  and  consecrated 
to  the  work,  his  life  was  a  benediction  to  the  com- 
munity. His  works  of  charity  and  his  efforts  in  be- 
half of  the  lost,  keep  his  memory  fresh  in  the  minds 
of  many." 


The  Union  Church  of  Maryville  was  organized  by 
Dr.  E.  B.  Sherwood,  December  13,  1868. 

Miss  Emma  G.  Canan  wrote  in  1906 :  ' '  The  char- 
ter members  were  gathered  from  the  Old  School,  New 
School  and  United  Presbyterian  Churches,  and  this 
led  to  its  being  called  the  Union  Presbyterian  Church. 
Two  of  those  members  are  still  living  in  Maryville, 
Mr.  Wm.  W.  Jackson  and  Rebecca,  his  wife,  both  of 
Avhom  have  been  faithful,  always  at  all  the  services, 
both  Sabbath  and  mid-week.  Our  first  pastor  was 
Rev.  James  II.  Crawford,  who  not  only  preached  on 
the  Sabbath  and  conducted  the  mid-week  service,  but 
worked  on  the  building  till  it  was  completed  and  dedi- 
cated." 

The  charter  members  as  given  by  Mr.  W.  W. 
Jackson  were :  Miss  Bell  Andrews,  Miss  Letitia  An- 
drews, Homer  A.  Avery,  John  and  Mollie  J.  Blair, 
John  Edwards,  Lewis  C.  Evans,  David  T.  Geiger,  Mrs. 
Hightman,  Wm.  W.  and  Rebecca  A.  Jackson,  Mrs.  L. 
C.  Leiber,  Mrs.  0 'Riley  and  Mrs.  Prather.  A  history 
in  the  Kansas  City  Library  adds  to  these :  Mrs.  Re- 
becca Evans,  Mrs.  Rebecca  Geiger,  Wm.  Geiger  and 
John  Jackson.  These  were  probably  early  members. 
The  same  authority  gives  J.  Blair,  J.  Edwards  and  D. 
T.  Geiger  as  the  elders,  and  J.  E.  Alexander,  F.  P. 
Glasgow  and  W.  H.  Purviance  as  the  trustees. 

No  roll  of  ministers  or  elders  has  been  furnished, 
but  we  can  give  of  the  former — J. .  M.  Crawford,  W. 


88  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

G.  Thomas,  A.  D.  AVorkman,  James  A.  Gerhard,  A.  M. 
Reynolds,  F.  P.  Berry,  S.  M.  Ware,  Chas.  E.  Kircher 
and  Chas.  P.  Lnee ;  of  the  latter,  J.  Blair,  J.  Edwards, 
D.  T.  Geiger,  John  W.  Bell,  Joseph  Jackson,  J.  B. 
Morrison,  M.  D.,  0.  S.  Hotchkin,  Wm.  M.  Howell,  W. 
n.  Davey,  Geo.  Worst,  F.  M.  Petty,  Chas.  AVells,  Jos. 
McKee,  J.  A.  McAnulty,  O.  P.  Torrance,  Peter  Gris- 
wold,  L.  C.  Evans,  H.  T.  Crane,  Wm.  0.  Saw^yers,  John 
:\r.  Scott,  S.  G.  Gillam,  Prof.  H.  A.  Colbert  and  S.  .A. 
F  rmer. 

In  1889-1890,  a  division  occurred  which  resulted 
in  the  organization  of  the  Second  Church.  This  la- 
mentable breach  was  happily  healed  in  the  summer  of 
1898,  largely  through  the  influence  of  Rev.  R.  Cameron 
Townsend,  the  last  paster  of  the  Second  Church,  by 
the  union  of  the  two  churches,  forming  the  present 
First  Church. 


Rev.  Geo.  Sluter,  of  St  Louis,  on  January  17, 
1869,  organized  a  church  at  Carrollton,  w4th  James 
E.  January,  Chas.  Sterne,  Wm.  H.  Walker  and  Wm. 
R.  Wilson  as  elders,  and  Thomas  L.  Montgomery,  and 
Isaac  A.  McCombs  as  deacons.  The  records  are  not 
full,  and  only  through  the  persistent  efforts  of  Elder 
Robert  AY.  Steel  (in  1905),  are  we  able  to  give  so 
nearly  a  complete  list  of  the  original  members.  These 
w^ere  Wm.  Austin,  Miss  Eliz.  Brand,  Martha  A.  Cowles, 
J.  E.  January,  John  B.  and  Mary  C.  Lindsey,  Misses 
Sallie  and  Virginia  Lindsey,  I.  A.  McCombs,  T.  L. 
and  Mary  Montgomery,  C.  Sterne,  Isaac  H.  Walker, 
^Y.  H.  AValker,  James  F.  AA'ilson,  ^Y.  R.  AA^ilson  and 
Miss  Nancy  Young. 

In  addition  to  the  above  the  roll  of  elders  is 
Richard  Jackson,  Thomas  Orchard,  A.  L.  McCorkle, 
M.  D.,  AY.  D.  Dobson,  S.  Kirkwood  Turner,  Smith  C. 
Rea,  R.  AA"^.  Steele,  John  D.  A^albracht,  James  L.  Grant, 
Wm.  R.  Painter,  James  F.  Farnham,  Robert  AY.  Brown, 
E.  D.  AleCorkle,  Arthur  C.  Phillips,  Andrew  Finlayson, 
J.  B.  Stanlev  and  J.  W.  Howell. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  89 

The  first  pastor  was  J.  M.  Scott,  who  has  been 
followed  by  S.  T.  Ruffner,  Geo.  A.  McKinlay,  W.  D. 
Patton,  R.  M.  Carson,  J.  H.  Dixon,  B.  H.  Dupuy,  S.  W. 
Griffin,  C.  C.  Armstrong,  E.  A.  Boj^d,  Wm.  A.  Cravens, 
James  T.  Crane  and  John  A.  Ward. 

A  frame  church  costing  about  $2,000  was  built 
in  1869,  and  very  recently  a  new  brick  church  valued 
at  $10,000  has  been  erected.  The  old  one,  attached 
to  it,  is  used  for  Sabbath  school  and  prayer  meeting. 
A  manse  costing  $2,750  has  recently  been  built.  The 
church  owes  very  much  to  Mr.  Samuel  Painter,  the 
father  of  Elder  W.  R.  Painter.  Though  languishing 
at  times,  the  church  is  now  full  of  life  and  energy. 

A.  Finlayson,  Clerk  of  Session,  has  kindly  supple- 
mented Elder  Steel's  earlier  history  and  brought  this 
Uj)  to  date. 

The  following  sketch  was  furnished  by  an  early 
pastor.  Rev.  Geo.  A.  McKinlay. 

^'The  two  men  whose  personalities  stand  out 
prominently  in  this  church  in  the  early  days  succeed- 
ing the  war,  are  Richard  Jackson  and  Dr.  IMcCorkle. 
Complete  opposites  in  birth,  training  and  character, 
they  yet  had  in  common  that  sturdy  American  sense 
of  right  and  independence,  crowned  by  a  genuine 
Christian  spirit,  which  drew  them  together  in  strong 
bonds  of  affection  and  mutual  respect.  Mr.  Jackson, 
coming  from  the  North,  was  keen  in  his  sympathies 
with  the  Union  cause.;  Dr.  McCorkle,  descended  from 
the  ''F.  F.  Vs.,"  was  taken  prisoner  during  the  cam- 
paigns of  Gen.  Price's  army.  Each  held  to  his  con- 
victions tenaciously,  but  never  a  jar  marred  all  their 
relations  as  members  and  elders  in  the  Carrollton 
Church.  Such  men  are  brilliant  types  of  the  forceful 
manhood  that  has  laid  so  broad  and  deep  the  founda- 
tions of  the  churches  of  old  Platte  Presbyter}'." 


The    Aval  on   Church,   for   a   time   called  Fairview, 


90  HISTORY  OF  PJ.ATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

was  organized  April  8,  1869,  by  Kev.  J.  D.  Beard  and 
Elder  Abraham  Brown,  in  a  school  house  two  miles 
north  of  Avalon,  with  the  following  members:  Agnes 
Altman,  Jane  Fullerton,  Mary  FuUerton,  Mary  A. 
FuUerton,  Margaret  Gray,  S.  A.  Gray,  Wm.  S.  Gray, 
David  Linton,  Jimmie  Linton,  Henrietta  Manson,  Mar- 
garet Manson,  Mary  Myers,  Simeon  Myers,  David 
Shields,  Mary  Shields  and  Nannie  B.  Shields,  W.  S. 
Gray,  S.  Myers  and  D.  Shields  were  chosen  elders. 
In  addition  to  these  the  church  has  had  the  following 
elders:  John  K.  Sweeney,  S.  A.  Gray,  V.  C.  Bates," 
James  W.  Edmonds,  Leroy  Myers,  Ross  Canning  and 
Adrian  Wright.  The  church  has  been  supplied  by 
J.  D.  Beard  (for  twelve  years),  James  Reed,  John 
Hawkes,  Geo.  Case,  W.  C.  McCune,  James  Welch,  James 
A.  Liggett,  James  A.  Gehrett,  A.  D.  Wolfe  and  T.  C. 
Armstrong. 

In  1875  they  built  a  church  costing  about  $2,200. 
In  1888-1889,  the  citizens  of  Avalon — virtually 
the  Presbyterian  Church — highly  appreciating  the 
value  of  educational  facilities,  purchased  the  ''Avalon 
College"  building  from  the  United  Brethren.  Later 
the  Institution  was  taken  under  the  care  of  Platte 
Presbytery.  A  heroic  struggle  to  sustain  it  w^as  car- 
ried on  for  years,  but  finally  abandoned  in  1898.  The 
church,  built  in  1875,  "was  sold  in  1892,  and  the  pro- 
ceeds applied  towards  the  purchase  of  the  College 
property."  While  the  movement  was  disastrous  finan- 
cially, it  showed  the  spirit  of  the  church  and  reflected 
great  credit  upon  it.  From  it  have  gone  forth  one 
home  missionary.  Rev.  James  D.  Sweeney,  and  one 
medical  missionary.  Dr.  John  L.  Myers  of  Alaska,  while 
others  of  its  youth  have  taken  a  liberal  education. 

Simeon  Myers  was  born  in  Ohio  and  came  to  In- 
diana with  his  parents.  He  had  a  faithful  Christian 
mother  who,  herself,  gathered  her  eight  children 
around  the  family  altar  till  Simeon  was  converted  at 
sixteen  and  took  part  with  her  until  he  left  home 
to  teach  school.  After  serving  in  the  63rd  Illinois 
Infantry  till  the  close  of  the  war,  he  moved  with  his 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  91 

family  to  Avalon.  After  being  Clerk  of  Session  for 
twenty-four  years,  he  retired  from  active  service  be- 
cause of  infirmity.  He  has  a  son  in  missionary  work, 
and  another  preparing  for  it. 

For  much  of  the  above  we  are  indebted  to  S.  A. 
■Gray,  Clerk  of  Session  for  the  last  fifteen  years,  and 
an  active  elder  for  over  a  quarter^  of  a  century. 


The  Rosendale  Church  was  organized  May  22, 
1869,  by  Eev.  J.  N.  Young  and  Elder  R.  Muir,  with 
•eleven  members.  It  has  been  served  by  Revs.  M.  L. 
Anderson,  W.  E.  Voss,  James  Reed,  Wm.  A.  Smith, 
W.  A.  Cravens  and  A.  W.  McGlothlan.  An  incomplete 
list  of  elders  is  J.  W.  Porterfield,  David  Atkinson, 
Thomas  B.  Howard,  John  H.  Graff,  James  P.  Anderson, 
James  A.  Porterfield,  James  B.  Muir  and  George 
Baum.  The  church,  erected  in  1871,  cost  $600,  all  oi" 
which  was  raised  at  home. 

The  above  was  furnished  by  Elder  J.  P.  Anderson. 


The  Harmony  congregation  was  organized  at  the 
Hurdle  store,  five  miles  northwest  of  Easton,  August 
1,  1869,  by  Rev.  W.  O.  H.  Perry,  with  eight  members. 
John  G.  Williams  and  John  Simmons  were  elected  and 
ordained  ruling  elders.  March  26,  1870,  the  church 
then  having  thirty-one  members,  elected  Wm.  Cor- 
nelius and  Dr.  John  H.  Wright  as  elders,  and  Isaac 
Clark  and  John  Davis  as  deacons.  April  1,  1870,  the 
<iongregation  was  received  under  the  care  of  Platte 
Presbytery,  and  ''Rev.  W.  0.  H.  Perry  engaged  as 
ministerial  supply  one  Sabbath  in  each  month  for  one 
year,  with  the  understanding  that  he  effect  an  ex- 
change of  pulpits  each  alternate  month  with  Rev.  F.  M. 
Miller,  the'  congregation  agreeing  to  pay  the  sum  of 
$125.00  per  year." 

The  above  extracts  from  the  Records  were  furn- 
ished bv  Mr.  W.  E.  Knadler,  Clerk  of  Session.     The 


92  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Records  being  very  incomplete,  little  more  is  given. 
The  elders  known,  in  addition  to  those  named  above, 
are  Geo.  Bermond,  Simeon  Hefley  and  John  Cornelius. 
The  frame  church,  valued  at  $1,000,  six  miles  north- 
west of  Easton,  Avas  built  in  1870. 


The  New  York  Settlement  Church  Avas  organized 
in  the  ''Radical"  school  house,  October  3,  1869,  by 
Reys.  E.  D.  Sherwood  and  Joel  Kennedy,  with  five 
members :  Eliz.  Austin,  Sarah  A.  Filson,  John  Q.  Peck, 
Mary,  Scott  and  Thomas  Wilson.  T.  AYilson  was 
elected  elder,  and  James  L.  Filson,  J.  Q.  Peck  and 
A.  C.  Sears,  trustees.  J.  Kennedy  served  as  pastor  for 
seven  years,  and  has  been  followed  by  T.  C.  Armstrong, 
J.  C.  Young,  C.  P.  Blayney,  W.  A.  Cravens,  And. 
Glendenning,  L.  H.  Shock,  E.  H.  Bull,  C.  G.  Russell. 
W.  E.  Caldwell  and  J.  TI.  Weaver. 

A  probably  incomplete  list  of  elders  is :  T.  Wilson,. 
Anson  Salsbury,  J.  Q.  Peck,  Ira  Houghton,  Geo.  S. 
Will,  S.  H.  Towne,  L.  R.  Thwing,  L.  ^L  Hill  and  S.  M. 
Towne. 

The  church,  built  in  1878,  at  a  cost  of  $1,389.71, 
is  situated  twelve  miles  southwest  of  Breckenridge. 

We  are  indebted  to  Elder  S.  M.  Towne  for  the 
above. 

Always  small  and  feeble,  this  church  has  been,  like 
so  many  country  churches,  a  feeder  for  other  churches 
and  the  church  at  large,  having  supplied  one  home 
missionary,  Rev.  James  H.  Salsbury,  and  one  mission- 
ary teacher  (among  the  Mormons),  Miss  Cora  M. 
Owen.  Weak  in  numbers,  it  has  been  strong  in  the 
persistent  devotion  of  its  leading  members. 

A  former  pastor  sends  the  following  tribute v: 

"IMrs.  Leonard  Towne  and  her  daughter-in-law, 
Mrs.  Etta  Towne  are  certainly  worthy  of  mention  as 
'Mothers  in  Israel.'     The  first,  while  not  one  to  take 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  93 

a  leading  part  in  public,  would  always  urge  others 
forward  and  hold  up  their  hands.  The  latter  was  a 
very  superior  woman  and  possessed  many  rare  gifts, 
all  fused  into  a  noble  Christian  character.  That  sweet 
spirit  was  also  strong  in  its  influence  in  the  home  and 
the  church.  It  was  the  living  of  these  two  women  in 
the  home  that  led  their  husbands  to  come  out  on  the 
Lord's  side." 


The  Oak  Grove  Church  was  organized  December 
12,  1869,  by  Rev.  E.  B.  Sherwood,  in  the  Maxwell 
school  house,  one  mile  north  of  the  limits  of  St.  Joseph, 
with  the  following  members :  Huston,  Isabel,  Melissa 
and  Orlena  Bazar,  Lorenda  and  Wm.  R.  Becraft,  Fran- 
<^is  N.  Brinson,  Marion  Carswell,  Geo.  AV.  Casteel, 
Martha  E.  Cox,  Clarinda  and  Jacob  Decker,  Benton 
W.,  Fannie  M.,  Wickliffe  and  Sarah  E.  Estes,  James 
P.  Gardner,  Mary  Ann  Gilbert,  Joshua  and  Mary  Ann 
Haxton,  Biddie  and  J.  W.  Mansfield,  Rebecca 
Matthews,  Annie  E.,  Charles,  John  A.,  Julia,  Logan, 
]\Iary  E.  and  Susan  K.  Maxwell,  Missouri  Ann  Murry, 
John  Newman,  Cora,  Mary  Ann  and  Wm.  A.  Rhodes, 
Marion  Ann  Self,  John  Sullivan,  Sallie  C.  and  Wm. 
Van  Horn  and  Mary  A.  AYelsh. 

The  early  elders  were  L.  Maxwell,  J.  Haxton  and 
W.  Becraft.  Since  1895,  H.  A.  Matthews,  A.  P.  Moor- 
man, P.  H.  Woods,  G.  AV.  AVhitsett  and  I.  Roup  have 
been  elected. 

The  church  has  been  supplied  by  E.  D.  Sherw^ood, 
AV.  H.  Ilslcy,  T.  D.  Roberts,  S.  F.  Wilson,  John  I.  Cur- 
tis and  D.  B.  AVhimster. 

In  1871,  a  frame  church  costing  about  $1,400  was 
built  on  land  donated  by  Elder  JMaxwell.  In  1904-5,  a 
l)rick  church  costing  about  $5,000  was  built  on  the  same 
site,  being  ''finished  through  the  fidelity  and  diligence 
of  the  pastor.  Rev.  J.  T.  Curtis."  The  manse  stands 
on  a  half-acre  lot. 

This  church  was  the  outgrowth  of  a  Sabbath  school 
<3arried  on  by  the  Westminster  Church  of  St.  Joseph, 


94  HISTORY  OF  FI^TTE  PRESBYTERY. 

and  was,  at  first  and  for  years,  whenever  vacant,  sup- 
plied on  alternate  Sabbaths  by  the  honored  pastor  of 
that  church.  It  flourished  for  years  and  raised  up 
two  faithful  ministers,  A.  M.  Reynolds  and  C.  C.  Arm- 
strong, but  was  finally  reduced,  by  removals,  death  and 
the  organization  of  another  church  in  the  same  neigh- 
borhood, to  a  membership  of  three,  and  in  1891,  of  two. 
Elder  Maxwell,  with  wise  foresight,  persistently  re- 
fused the  disbandment  of  the  church,  and  the  sale 
of  the  building.  A  flourishing  church  there  to-day 
fully  justifies  him.  Elder  Matthews,  who  furnished 
most  of  the  above,  has  been  a  worthy  successor  in 
zeal  and  efficiency. 

The  following  sketch  would  be  equally  in  place 
among  the  "Early  Pioneers," 

"Logan  Maxwell  was  born  March  25,  1813.  in 
Caldwell  county,  Ky.  His  father  dying  when  he  was 
a  lad  of  seven  years,  he  was  obliged  to  look  out  for 
himself,  and  as  the  schools  of  that  period  were  con- 
ducted upon  the  subscription  plan,  he  received  very 
little  education.  Tn  1836,  he  married  Sarah  K.  Beard 
of  Tennessee,  sister  of  Dr.  Richard  Beard  of  Cumber- 
land Presbyterian  fame.  She  was  the  mother  of  eleven 
children,  and  died  June  17,  1891,  aged  seventy-five 
years.  In  the  fall  of  1837,  he  arrived  in  the  state  of 
Missouri,  having  started  two  months  previous,  with 
his  wife  and  babe,  in  a  one-horse  cart.  On  reaching 
the  Ohio  River,  he  traded  his  horse  for  a  yoke  of  oxen. 
.He  settled  on  the  land  where  he  lived  till  the  day 
of  his  death,  June  13,  1904,  a  wild,  uncultivated  tract. 
St.  Joseph  was  then  only  a  mere  trading  post,  four 
miles  distant.  He  cradled  many  an  acre  of  wheat 
where  the  large  business  houses  of  the  city  now  standi 
eating  his  dinner  on  the  hill  now  occupied  by  the  Court 
House.  His  first  work,  after  taking  his  elaim,  was 
to  build  a  log  shanty,  the  floor  of  puncheon  and  the 
roof  of  clapboards.  In  order  to  purchase  his  first 
cow  he  bargained  to  make  2,500  rails. 

"Mr.  Maxwell  always  took  an  active  part  in  edu- 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  95 

cational  and  religious  matters,  and  was  very  generous 
in  his  gifts  for  their  support,  donating  a  site  for  the 
school.  He  was  first  a  member  of  a  Cumberland  church 
in  the  country  north  of  the  city.  At  the  close  of  the 
war  he  transferred  his  membership  to  the  Westminster 
Church.  In  1869,  meetings  were  held  in  the  Maxwell 
school  house,  and  as  a  result  the  Oak  Grove  Church 
was  organized,  largely  through  his  influence.  Through 
all  the  years  of  its  struggle  for  existence,  and  for  sev- 
eral years  it  was  kept  alive  solely  by  his  gifts.  In 
his  morning  and  evening  devotions  he  was  never 
known  to  fail  to  pray  for  its  success,  and  during  the 
last  days  of  his  life  the  building  of  a  new  church 
was  his  constant  theme  of  conversation  with  all.  His 
last  business  transaction  was  the  giving  of  two  per- 
sonal checks  of  $1,000,  with  the  request  that  the  old 
church  be  torn  down  and  the  new  one  be  begun  at  once. 
The  last  service  held  in  the  old  building  was  his  fun- 
eral. The  beautiful  new  building  stands  to-day,  a 
monument  of  his  love  and  devotion  and  prayers." 


The  Mt.  Zion  congregation  was  organized  March 
26,  1870,  by  Rev.  F.  M.  Miller,  with  the  following 
members :  Wm.  J.  Arthur  and  wife,  Wm.  Brown  and 
wife,  Wiley  H.  Chapman  and  wife,  J.  T.  Elder  and 
wife,  John  Evans  and  wife,  George  Grace,  Wm.  James 
and  wife,  W.  J.  McCorkle  and  wife,  Laban  Pritchard 
and  wife,  Mrs.  Janet  Robertson,  Elmira  Sharp  and 
James  Weir  and  wife.  J.  Weir,  J.  T.  Elder  and  L. 
Pritchard  were  chosen  elders. 

This  church  has  been  served  by  Revs.  F,  M.  Miller, 
Leander  F.  Hayes,  W.  0.  H.  Perry,  C.  D.  Powers,  J. 
H.  Tharp,  James  Froman,  C.  E.  Hayes,  Arthur  E. 
Perry  and  S.  T.  Divinia.  The  later  elders  are  W.  H. 
Chapman,  Paul  Norris,  Robert  Onstalt,  John  H.  Young, 
S.  M.  Mayes,  John  Aitken,  Benjamin  Cottrell,  R.  D. 
Parker  and  Edward  Moore.  The  house  of  worship  is 
six  miles  south  of  St.  Joseph  Court  House. 


96  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

The  above  has  been  kindly  furnished  by  Elder  \V 
H.  Chapman,  Clerk  of  Session. 

This  is  one  of  the  few  churches  having  a  glebe, 
It  has  a  very  large  Sabbath  school,  and  is  a  power  t'or 
good  in  the  community. 


The  Kockport  Church  was  organized  May  11, 
1870,  by  Eevs.  J.  M.  Morrison  and  ^Y.  11.  Cummins, 
and  Elder  G.  R.  Luckhardt,  with  Mrs.  E.  L.  Hawthorn, 
Robert  Lynn,  Margaret  McMillan,  Samuel  Morrison, 
Eliza  Snyder,  Martha  Thompson  and  Wm.  A.  Thomp- 
son as  members.    R.  Lynn  was  chosen  elder. 

The  Records  being  imperfect,  the  following  lists 
may  be  incomplete :  Ministers,  J.  M.  Morrison,  E.  B. 
Sherwood,  Luther  Dodd,  H.  T.  S.  Willis,  F.  J.  Reichert, 
W.  E.  Vose,  James  Kirkwood,  Jos.  Wood,  James  E. 
Leyda,  J.  A.  Currie,  R.  D.  AYest  and  John  Duncan. 
Elders :  R.  Lynn,  W.  N.  Curry,  Chas.  Shepperson, 
James  H.  Filson,  Wm.  Bentley,  AYm.  H.  Gordon, 
Prof.  J.  U.  Crosen  and  L.  C.  Christian.  The  church 
costing  about  $3,000^  was  built  in  1877. 

The  above  was  furnished  by  Judge  W.  H.  Gordon, 

Clerk  of  .Session. 

The  fact  that  many  of  the  officers  of  this  church 
have  been  high  county  officials  has  added  to  its  in- 
fluence, but  has  also  been  a  drawback  because  their 
stay  in  it  has  been  limited  by  their  terms  of  office. 

This  church  has  long  been  rich  in  the  possession 
of  Elder  Charles  Shepperson,  a  native  of  A^irginia  and 
of  a  noted  ministerial  family,  who  as  a  popular  teacher 
on  the  rich,  but  religiously  destitute  Missouri  bottom 
lying  near,  has  been  also  a  spiritual  teacher  and  guide 
to  multitudes  of  youth. 


Rev.  Joel  Kennedy,  who  began  preaching  in  the 
Eureka   school   house   in   Lincoln   township,   Caldwell 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  97 

county,  in  April,  1870,  organized  a  church  at  that  point 
in  conjunction  with  Rev.  E.  B.  Sherwood,  on  Satur- 
day, August  13,  1870,  with  the  following  members : 
David  and  Rachel  Cooper,  and  James  M.  and  Sarah 
M.  Cooper,  from  the  Crooked  River  Church ;  Sam  '1 
F.  Gallaher,  and  Thomas  B.  and  Jane  Gallaher,  from 
Deersville,  0.;  Henry  W.  Botsford  from  Martinsbur  j", 
N.  Y.,  and  Charles  L.  Botsford  from  Franklin,  0. ;  D. 
Cooper  and  H.  W.  Botsford  Avere  elected  elders,  and 
S.  F.  Gallaher,  deacon.  In  the  next  two  days,  Mary 
C.  Cooper,  Wm.  C.  Cooper  and  Mrs.  Eliz.  Miller  were 
received  on  profession  of  their  faith.  The  church  was 
called  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Lincoln  Town- 
ship, but  sometimes  appears  in  various  published 
Minutes  as  Glassville  (its  nearest  post  office). 

The  Pleasant  View  Church  was  organized  May  28, 
1874,  at  the  Baker  school  house  (where  Rev.  Geo.  A. 
McKinlay  had  been  preaching  over  a  year),  by  Revs. 
E.  B.  Sherwood,  J.  H.  France,  C.  W.  Higgins  and 
Joel  Kennedy,  a  committee  appointed  by  Platte  Pres- 
bytery, wdth  ten  members.  Of  these,  John  C.  and 
Jane  Adams  were  received  by  letter  from  the  Lin- 
coln Church;  Robert  T.  and  M.  A.  Mylar,  from  the 
Mirabile  Church,  and  Sarah  Lizzie  Adams,  Joseph  M. 
and  Harriet  Baker,  Miss  Jennie  M.  Baker,  and  Pleasant 
M.  and  Charity  E.  Shafer  on  the  profession  of  their 
faith.  J.  M.  Baker  and  R.  T.  Mylar  were  chosen  elders. 
August  ninth,  J.  C.  Adams  was  elected  elder,  and  P. 
M.  Shafer,  deacon. 

February  24,  1877,  a  meeting  of  the  above  two  con- 
gregations, moderated  by  Rev.  John  F.  Clarkson,  was 
held  in  the  Shelleberger  school  house,  when  the  two 
churches  united  under  the  name  of  Lincoln,  and  re- 
.tained  all  their  officers  as  follows:  J.  M.  Baker,  J.  C. 
Adams,  R.  T.  ]\Iylar,  T.  B.  Gallaher  and  James  Tait, 
elders,  and  P.  I\I.  Shafer  and  S.  F.  Gallaher,  deacons. 

Preaching  services  were  held  at  various  points 
till  1884,  when  a  house  of  worship  costing  over  $1,100 
was  erected  at  Glassville,  on  land  donated  by  Aaron 

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98  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Pfost.  In  consequence  of  the  coming  of  a  railroad,, 
the  building  was  removed,  in  1893,  about  two  miles 
to  Cowgill,  and  the  name  of  the  church  changed  to 
Cowgill. 

The  elders,  in  addition  to  those  named  above,  are 
Alvin  Poor,  R.  11.  Whitsitt ;  J.  II.  Conley,  Wm.  Claude 
Poor,  R.  A.  McPheeters,  Samuel  C.  Ludington  and  J. 
H.  Whitsitt. 

The  church  has  been  supplied  by  Joel  Kennedy, 
G.  A.  McKinlay,  J.  F.  Clarkson,  Wm.  C.  Smith,  W.  T. 
Scott,  A.  B.  Goodale,  G.  E.  Northrup,  J.  T.  Boyer,  J. 
W.  Todd,  James  Reed,  C.  G.  Russell,  C.  E.  Edwards. 
John  Wilson,  Pastor-at-large,  preached  frequently  from 
1893  to  1897,  and  secured  the  removal  of  the  church 
building  to  Cowgill. 

For  the  above  we  are  indebted  to  Alvin  Poor, 
Clerk  of  Session,  and  elder  for  twenty-five  years,  and 
Rev.  James  Reed. 


Elder  G.  D.  Shewey,  of  Trimble,  Clerk  of  Session, 
writes : 

The  Bethany  congregation  was  organized  at  the 
Kelley  school  house,  September  3,  1870,  by  Rev.  Isaac 
Chivington.  The  church,  a  frame  building  valued  at 
$1,000,  is  situated  four  miles  northeast  of  Trimble. 
It  is  now  supplied  by  Rev.  C.  E.  Edwards.  We  regret 
not  having  a  fuller  sketch  of  this  large  and  important 
country  church. 


The  Knox  Church  was  organized  the  second  Tues- 
day of  September,  1871,  by  Revs.  T.  Morgan,  N.  H. 
Smith  and  D.  McRuer,  and  Elder  Wm.  Allen,  a  com- 
mittee of  Platte  Presbytery,  with  the  following  mem- 
bers:  Walter  Gladstone,  Wm.  C.  Gladstone,  Peter 
McPherson,  Robert  Pringle,  James  Shillinglaw,  Hugh 
Wallace  and  John  Wallace  and  their  wives,  and  Mrs. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  9& 

Mary  T.  McRuer.  M.  Gladstone  and  IL  Wallace  were 
elected  elders.  These  elders  and  most,  if  not  all  the 
church  members  came  from  Scotland,  by  way  of  Can- 
ada. In  addition  to  these,  Samuel  ^Maxwell,  Wm.  C. 
Gladstone  and  Alex.  Gladstone  have  been  elders.  The 
church  has  been  supplied  by  Duncan  McRuer,  John 
Huston,  Wm.  Meyer,  Carson  Reed,  James  Kirkwood^ 
Duncan  McRuer  and  C.  C.  Armstrong. 

The  above  has  been  furnished  by  Elder  Alex. 
Gladstone,,  for  about  twenty  years  Clerk  of  Session 
and  the  only  active  elder. 

The  church  building,  three  and  a  half  miles  north- 
east of  Gentry,  a  new  railroad  to^^oi,  and  till  recently 
far  from  any  town,  is  on  a  broad  prairie  and  visible 
from  afar.  The  church  spiritual  has  been  a  beacon 
light  for  this  whole  section,  for  though  meagerly  sup- 
plied with  preaching  because  of  its  isolation,  an  ever- 
green Sabbath  school  has  been  maintained,  superin- 
tended these  many  years  most  efficiently  and  attrac- 
tively by  ]\Irs.  Alex.  Gladstone. 


The  Aubery  Grove  congregation  was  organized  at 
Ketron  Chapel,  September  4,  1871,  by  Revs.  Wm.  M. 
Houston  and  Wm.  S.  Davis.  The  charter  members  were 
Hanna  Buzzard,  Susan  T.  Callison,  Bell  Caraway,  Jane, 
Mary  B.  and  Robert  B.  Foster,  Eliz.,  Margaret,  Simeon 
and  Virginia  Hamlin,  Ella  R.  and  Virginia  Hill,  John 
Lockridge,  Carrie  McCartney,  Wm.  H.  McClung,  Net- 
tie and  Sallie  E.  IMiller,  Harriet  Nickell,  Geo.  A.  Pogue 
and  James  and  Mary  C.  Waugh. 

In  the  spring  of  1873,  the  Bethel  Presbyterian 
Church  w^as  built  and  the  Aubery  congregation  began 
holding  services  there,  so  doing  till  in  June,  1890,  when 
the  Hopewell  Church  was  completed  and  ready  for 
use.  At  that  time  the  name  was  changed  from  Aubery 
Grove  to  Hopewell. 

The  roll  of  ministers  is  Wm.  S.  Houston,  Wm.  S. 
Davis,  James  M.  Ragan,  Wm.  N.  Nickell,  J  .H.  Tharp, 


100  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

L.  F.  Hayes,  J.  W.  French,  John  R.  Adkins,  S.  S. 
Hardin,  L.  F.  Eodgers,  M.  U.  Dougherty  and  N.  M. 
Tatum.  The  elders  were  R.  B.  Foster,  James  Waugh, 
W.  H.  McClung,  Wm.  Robinson,  Thomas  K.  Hays, 
Chas.  S.  Chamberlain,  Geo.  C.  Goodbar,  Dr.  N.  Hesler, 
Joseph  R.  Foster,  Robert  W.  Hill,  Homer  Musselman 
and  Samuel  Gant. 

Hopewell  united  with  the  Bethel  Church  (U.  S. 
A.),  August  26,  1906. 

The  above  was  furnished,  in  most  excellent  shape, 
by  Elder  Jos.  R.  Foster,  the  last  Clerk  of  Session  of 
the  Hopewell  Church.  Since  the  union  the  consolid- 
ated church  has  prospered  greatly. 


The  Mound  City  Church  was  organized  May  5, 
1872,  by  Rev.  E.  B.  Sherwood,  with  the  following  five 
members:  Andrew  Frazer,  Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Frazer, 
W.  W.  Frazer,  Mrs.  Jane  Glenn  and  Mrs.  Catherine 
Strickler.    W.  W.  Frazer  was  elected  ruling  elder. 

The  elders  who  have  served  the  church  are  W. 
W.  Frazer,  S.  P.  Jewell,  Geo.  C.  Brown,  M.  M.  Smith, 
W.  H.  Wett,  G.  H.  Carpenter,  W.  M.  Hamsher,  H.  K. 
S.  Robinson,  C.  S.  Armstrong,  Wm.  Hoblitzell  and  Dr. 
C.  N.  Smith;  the  ministers,  M.  L.  Anderson,  W.  G. 
Thomas,  J.  0.  Pierce,  Duncan  Brown,  Willis  Weaver, 
A.  W.  Benson,  A.  M.  Irvine,  S.  G.  Fisher,  A.  B.  Byram, 
Jos.  M.  AYright,  Geo.  Miller,  A.  D.  Wolfe,  H.  N.  Bullard 
and  E.  W.  Waits. 

The  church,  costing  about  $2,000,  was  erected  in 
1872,  and  enlarged  in  1881 ;  outlay,  $500. 

For  the  above  we  are  indebted  to  Elder  Wm.  M. 
Hamsher,  Clerk  of  Session  and  main  pillar  of  the 
church  for  many  years. 

This  is  a  real  missionary  church  having  two  out- 
stations,  Blair  and  Shiloh. 


New  Point  Church,  known  as  ''Hope"  for  some 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  101 

years,  was  organized  September  2,  1872,  by  Revs. 
N.  11.  Smith  and  R.  Cruikshank  and  Elder  P.  G.  Tyner, 
in  the  Cowan  school  house,  one  mile  northwest  of  New 
Point.  The  first  members  were  Jeremiah  Botkins,  Wm. 
and  Sarah  Coburn,  Misses  Emma  and  Nellie  Coburn, 
John  G.  and  Mary  E.  Cowan,  B.  0.  Cowan,  Mrs.  Eliz. 
Graham,  V.  L.  and  Hannah  Graham,  John  and  Mary 
Meyer,  Miss  Anna  M.  Meyer  and  Samuel  G.  Park.  The 
first  elders  were  J.  G.  Cowan  and  John  Meyer,  and  they 
have  been  follow^ed  by  Samuel  Praisewater,  B.  0. 
Cowan,  B.  F.  Praisewater,  J.  A.  Price,  E.  K.  Christen- 
sen,  Wm.  F.  Bragg  and  0.  P.  Botkin. 

The  church  has  been  supplied  by  N.  H.  Smithy 
Geo.  Miller,  "W.  E.  Williamson,  T.  D.  Roberts,  S.  G. 
Fisher,  Willis  Weaver,  A.  B.  Byram,  C.  P.  Blayney^ 
W.  E.  Caldwell,  H.  P.  Alexander  and  T.  D.  Roberts 
(at  present). 

The  frame  church,  costing  about  $2,000,  all  of 
which  was  raised  at  home,  was  completed  in  October, 
1877.  This  church  has  a  manse.  It  has  raised  up  one 
minister,  William  Meyer. 

While  this  church,  located  in  an  intelligent  and 
prosperous  farming  community,  has  never  been  large^ 
it  has  always  been  strong  in  every  sense. 


Elder  Wilson  C.  Baldwin,  Clerk  of  Session  of  the 
Martinsville  Church,  writes : 

A  petition  signed  by  I.  N.  Wren,  James  Scott 
and  six  others  was  presented  to  Presbytery  at  its 
session  held  in  Oregon  in  September,  1872,  that  a 
church  be  organized,  and  Revs.  E.  B.  Sherwood  and 
D.  McRuer,  and  Elder  James  Owen  were  appointed 
as  a  committee.  The  church  was  organized  December 
18,  1872,  with  Archibald  Scott,  James  Scott,  son  and 
wife,  James  Scott,  Jr.,  and  wife.  Miss  Jane  Scott^ 
Thomas  Scott  and  wife,  Mrs.  Mary  Stoffle  and  son, 
and  I.  N.  Wren  and  wife  as  members.     A.  Scott  and 


102  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

J.  Scott,  Jr.,  were  elected  elders.  Both  of  these  had 
served  as  ruling  elders  in  Scotland,  the  latter  in  St. 
Luke's   Church,   Glasgow. 

The  church  has  been  supplied  by  D.  McRuer  (for 
over  thirteen  years),  James  A.  IMcKay,  C.  P.  Blayney, 
James  Eeed  and  H.  A.  Brown. 

The  more  recent  elders  are  Walter  Murray,  W.  C. 
Baldwin,  Frank  S.  Hills,  W.  Riley  Thompson  and 
Thomas  Scott. 

Services  were  held  in  a  building  owned  jointly 
with  the  Methodists  till  1898,  when  a  neat  frame 
church  costing  $1,500  was  erected. 

Education  is  greatly  appreciated  in  this  church 
which  has  raised  up  two  ministers,  Robert  C,  and 
James  B.  Stone,  and  several  high  grade  teachers. 


The  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Trenton  was 
organized  May  1,  1873,  by  Rev.  Joel  Kennedy,  at  the 
residence  of  Mr.  Wm.  Donaldson,  with  five  members, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wm.  Donaldson,  Mrs.  Randolph,  John 
A.  Reid  and  Mrs.  C.  Smith.  It  soon  grew  to  forty 
members,  when  it  rented  the  old  Methodist  church. 
Rev.  Hiram  Chadeayne  was  the  first  pastor,  and  he 
was  followed  by  Rev.  J.  M.  Crawford  who  continued 
in  charge  till  January  1,  1879.  In  the  meantime  a 
commodious  church  building  was  erected,  and  on  the 
morning  it  was  to  be  dedicated  it  burned  to  the 
ground,  involving  a  loss  of  $6,800,  with  an  insurance 
of  only  $3,000.  The  church  was  young  and  vigorous, 
and  at  once  built  a  very  elegant  structure  which  was 
dedicated  June  18,  1876. 

The  organization  became  involved  in  a  lawsuit 
at  this  time  through  the  indebtedness  occasioned  by 
the  loss  of  their  first  building.  The  case  was  decided  in 
favor  of  the  defendants,  but  Presbytery  appointed  a 
committee  to  compromise  the  case,  and  the  result  of 
the  arbitration  was  that  the  church  was  turned  over 
to  the  mortgagees  in  the  fall  of  1879. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  103 

The  "First  Church"  was  disbanded,  and  May 
19,  1880,  the  "Hodge  Presbyterian  Church"  was  organ- 
ized with  the  following  members :  Miss  Helen  Bab- 
cock,  Mrs.  Ed.  Benson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  D.  Dobson, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wm.  Donaldson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Flan- 
igan.  Miss  Jennie  Lafferty,  Miss  Tillie  McGuire,  Mrs. 
Randolph,  ^Irs.  C.  Smith,  Miss  Flora  Tinsman,  Mrs. 
Oeo.  F.  Walker,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  M.  White  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Charles  Zinsien.  They  purchased  the  old  South 
Methodist  church,  and  had  it  refitted  throughout  at 
an  expense  of  $2,300  for  the  whole. 

Rev.  Francis  E.  Thompson  was  called  in  1879; 
Rev.  Geo.  Miller,  in  1881,  and  he  was  followed  by  Rev. 
Alvin  B.  Goodale,  who  had  been  a  missionary  in  Tur- 
key, and  whose  daughter,  Emma,  went  to  Chili  as 
Mrs.  James  F.  Garvin,  daring  his  pastorate  here. 

On  the  afternoon  of  July  13,  1883,  Trenton  was 
visited  by  a  destructive  windstorm  which  completely 
destroyed  several  buildings,  among  them  the  church 
built  in  1876,  which  "was  blown  into  the  street  and 
the  whole  building  reduced  to  kindling  wood."  The 
Hodge  church  was  moved  about  six  inches  by  the  wind 
and  damaged  to  the  extent  of  $500. 

Rev.  G.  H.  Putnam  supplied  the  church  a  year  in 
1886-7,  and  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  John  Knox.  Dur- 
ing his  pastorate  a  manse  was  built.  Rev.  Wm.  Y.  Jones, 
now  a  missionary  in  Japan,  supplied  the  church  a 
part  of  the  year  1893,  and  followed  by  Rev.  John  W. 
Crawford.  Rev.  John  Creighton  served  the  church 
from  1897  till  1901,  and  Rev.  Alfred  Fowler,  the  fol- 
lowing year.  In  October,  1902,  Rev.  Geo.  H.  William- 
son was  called,  and  remained  as  pastor-elect  till  March, 
1905,  during  which  time  the  present  attractive  and 
convenient  edifice  valued  at  $8,000,  was  built,  and 
dedicated,  free  of  debt,  August  7,  1904.  In  December 
of  the  same  year  a  series  of  evangelistic  meetings  was 
held,  and  a  large  number  of  young  people,  mostly 
from  the  Sabbath  school,  united  wdth  the  church.  Rev. 
Wiley  K.  Wright  was  installed  in  1905,  but  after  a 


104  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTE'RY. 

short  and  happy  pastorate  was  obliged  to  resign  on 
account  of  ill  health.  While  he  was  pastor  the  present 
commodious  manse  was  purchased  for  $2,200.  In  the 
fall  of  1906,  the  church  gave  a  call  to  Rev.  Edmund 
S.  Brownlee,  who  entered  upon  his  work  with  this 
church,  December  1,  1906. 

The  above  was  condensed  from  a  very  full  his- 
tory, furnished  by  Mr.  Brownlee,  the  present  efficient 
and  acceptable  pastor. 

The  list  of  elders,  probably  incomplete,  is  Wm. 
Donaldson,  John  Flanigan,  J.  M.  White,  T.  B.  Cook, 
E.  K.  Hunter,  Geo.  DeLano,  R.  P.  Johnston,  E.  C. 
Lightner,  Henry  Baker,  J.  L.  Lafferty,  C.  F.  Palmer, 
R.  F.  Keith  and  R.  W.  Allerdice. 


A  number  of  families  in  Hopkins,  desiring  a 
church  of  their  own  order,  corresponded  with  Rev. 
E.  B.  Sherwood.  He  came,  and  after  thoroughly  can- 
vassing the  town  and  holding  some  services,  appointed 
Saturday,  May  31,  for  a  meeting  to  organize.  Elders 
John  M.  Bell  and  Geo.  H.  Hotaling  assisted  in  the 
organization.  Letters  were  presented  by  Wm.  K.  and 
Mary  Adams,  Mrs.  Sarah  Bender,  Mrs.  Clarissa  Brad- 
ley, Henry  P.  and  Sarah  L.  Dryden,  Mrs.  Mary  Green, 
Mrs.  Jennie  Heald,  Geo.  H.  and  Mildred  Hotaling, 
David  L.  Latschar,  Mrs.  i\Iary  E.  Martin  and  Mrs. 
Martha  A.  and  John  W.  Walker ;  and  Mark  B.  Bradley 
was  received  on  profession  of  faith.  On  Sunday,  June 
1,  1873,  the  organization  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Hopkins  w^as  consummated,  W.  K.  Adams 
and  G.  H.  Hotaling  being  elected  elders,  and  H.  P. 
Dryden  and  D.  L.  Latschar,  deacons. 

Bi-monthly  services  were  held  in  the  M.  E.  Church 
till  January,  1874,  and  then  in  Union  Hall  till  the 
Presbyterian  church,  costing  about  $2,400  was  com- 
pleted and  occupied  in  January,  1876.  This  building, 
which  was  enlarged,  remodeled  and  fitted  out  with  all 
conveniences  in  1901,  at  a  cost  of  $2,200,  burned  down 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  105 

in  1904.    A  new  brick-veneered  edifice,  valued  at  $7,500, 
was  completed  in  1906. 

The  church  has  been  served  by  Revs.  E.  B.  Sher- 
wood, A.  D.  Workman,  W.  H.  Ilsley,  Wm.  C.  Smith, 
A.  B.  DeLong,  F.  Lonsdale,  Wm.  McPheeters,  H.  B. 
Mays,  A.  D.  Seelig,  E.  Aston  and  K.  J.  Cardy;  and 
Elders  G.  H.  Hotaling,  W.  K.  Adams,  John  Crepps, 
Josiah  Strain,  R.  P.  Johnson,  A.  C.  Kennedy,  John 
C.  Stewart,  Warren  L.  Robb,  John  H.  Aiken,  Wm. 
Hepburn,  C.  L.  Adams  and  Chas.  S.  Evans. 

Four  young  men  who  joined  this  church  on  pro- 
fession of  faith,  afterwards  dedicated  their  lives  to 
the  ministry,  viz. :  T.  Morris  Hillman,  Albert  W. 
McGlothlan,  Ernest  W.  Symonds  and  T.  Henry  Hep- 
burn; and  two  ladies,  Miss  Helen  Goodsil,  now  Mrs. 
L.  J.  Davies,  and  Miss  Mary  Richardson,  now  Mrs. 
J.  Ashley  Fitch,  went  as  missionaries  to  China. 

Most  of  the  above  is  taken  from  a  more  detailed 
account  given  by  Miss  Pearl  Kennedy,  a  deeply 
afflicted  but  devoted  and  tireless  worker;  and  the 
rest  was  furnished  by  A.  C.  Kennedy,  who  has  served 
as  elder  for  twenty-five  years,  and  as  Clerk  of  Session 
for  about  twenty. 


In  the  address  of  the  Pastor  of  the  Westminster 
Church  on  his  Twenty-fifth  Anniversary  in  1893,  it  was 
said:  "In  looking  over  the  city  for  a  needy  field,  it 
was  found  there  was  no  place  of  worship  north  of 
Robidoux,  except  the  African  Methodist  Church  on 
Third  street,  while  there  were  several  thousand  people 
living  along  the  valley.  A  lot  was  bought  on  Third 
and  Isabelle  for  $600,  and  a  small  chapel  built  at  a 
cost  of  $960.  The  house  was  dedicated  and  a  Sunday 
school  opened  in  it  in  September,  1869. 

This  building  was  known  as  Westminster  chapel, 
and  in  it  the  North  Presbyterian  Church  was  organ- 
ized October  7,  1873,  by  Revs.  H.  Bullard  and  E.  B. 
Sherwood,  and  Elder  John  DeClue,  with  the  following 


106  HISTORY    OB^    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

members :  Edward  and  Sarah  Biddle,  B.  D.  and  Julia 
Elliott,  Miss  Maggie  Frank,  Miss  Sallie  Leininger,  Miss 
Alice  Moore,  J.  F.  and  Mary  A.  Riggs,  Mrs.  Mary 
Vance  and  Miss  M.  Vance.  B.  D.  Elliott  and  J.  F. 
Riggs  were  elected  elders  then,  and  since  then,  J.  D. 
McClain,  Eugene  Ayres,  J.  D.  Walker,  H.  A.  Matthews, 
E.  P.  Adams,  J.  A.  Montgomery,  W.  H.  Gaugh,  C.  W. 
Parcells,  A.  C.  Hayes,  Chas.  Aldrich,  C.  M.  Miller,  A. 
A.  Elliott,  J.  C.  Dauerlein,  K.  White,  G.  E.  McDaniel 
and  J.  C.  Lynch.  The  following  pastors  have  served 
the  church /W.  H.  Tlsley,  T.  D.  Roberts  (twice),  Dun- 
can Brown,  J.  E.  Brown,  E.  G.  Moore,  Frank  Lons- 
dale, Geo.  H.  Williamson,  U.  G.  Schell,  A.  M.  Reynolds 
and  A.  L.  Hall-Quest. 

This  church  has  never  been  large,  but  has  done 
a  great  work  among  the  young,  the  Sabbath  school 
numbering  as  high  as  300.  In  the  fall  of  1889,  a  brick 
church,  fifty-four  by  sixty  feet,  was  erected  at  a  cost 
of  $7,000,  which  was  raised  entirely  at  home.  The 
name  of  the  church  was  changed  to  Third  Street, 
October  19,  1891.  ''The  church  is  now  in  a  flourishing 
condition,  being  self-supporting  and  owning  property 
worth  $8,000,  free  of  debt." 

For  the  above  we  are  indebted  to  the  venerable 
flrst  elder,  who  is  still  in  the  harness,  and  his  son. 
Elder  A.  A.  Elliott. 


The  Akron  Church  was  organized  in  December, 
1873,  by  Revs.  D.  McRuer  and  Wm.  Reed,  with  the 
following  members :  David  and  Mary  P>azier,  Mrs. 
Eliz.  Frazier,  Mrs.  Emily  (Andrew)  Frazier,  Mrs. 
Emily  (Robert)  Frazier,  Joseph  Heasley  and  wife, 
Mrs.  Rosanna  McDonald,  A.  M.  and  Mary  E.  Morgan, 
Geo.  and  Frances  E.  Morgan,  Mrs.  Nancj^  Morgan,  and 
Henry  and  Louisa  Taff.  D.  Frazier  and  A.  M.  Mor- 
gan were  elected  elders,  and  they  have  been  followed 
by  Wm.  Frazier,  A.  L.  Ammons,  E  .G.  Poland,  J.  A. 
Frazier,  Geo.  IMorgan,  Walter  Bishop  and  A.  C.  Sallee. 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  107 

The  church  has  been  supplied  bj^  "Wm.  Reed,  D.  Mc- 
Ruer,  C.  C.  Ilembree,  James  A.  McKay  and  James  Reed. 

A  frame  church,  thirty  by  forty  feet,  ample  for 
this  small  country  neighborhood,  was  built  in  1876. 
Though  never  large  and  constantly  depleted  by  re- 
movals, this  church  has  furnished  valuable  workers 
for  the  church  at  large  and  has  been  a  feeder  for  other 
churches. 

Elder  George  Morgan,  Clerk  of  Session,  furnished 
the  above  data. 


In  the  early  seventies.  Rev.  Luther  Dodd  did  good 
service  for  the  Master  in  preaching  at  every  point  in 
Atchison  County  where  there  was  any  opening. 
Among  these  was  the  Willsie  or  London  school  house 
where,  on  Jane  19,  1874,  he  and  Rev.  E.  B.  Sherwood 
organized  the  Tarkio  Church  with  the  following  mem- 
bers :  Miss  Blessing,  Mrs.  Rebecca  Booth,  David  Flack 
and  wife,  G.  W.  Marquis  and  wife,  Mrs.  B.  Schaum 
and  "Grandma"  Schaum.  Of  these  G.  W.  Marquis 
was  elected  elder.  Two  years  later  Adam  Faris  and 
family  and  others  from  Mt.  Pleasant,  Iowa,  were  re- 
ceived, and  Mr.  Faris  and  H.  C.  Wilson  were  ordained 
elders.  The  place  of  meeting  for  the  first  four  years 
was  the  London  school  house.  Then  Homer  Hall  was 
used,  and  Barger  Hall  afterv/ards  till  the  church  was 
built.  The  first  Sunday  school  in  town  was  organized 
at  a  meeting  held  in  the  depot.  The  town  of  Tarkio 
was  not  even  located  till  six  years  after  the  organiza- 
tiqn  of  the  church.  A  frame  church,  thirty  by  fifty 
feet,  and  costing  $2,500,  the  first  one  erected  in  the 
town,  was  dedicated  April  9,  1882. 

For  the  preceding  early  history  we  are  indebted 
to  Elder  Robert  Lynn. 

This  church  has  been  supplied  by  L.  Dodd,  S.  M. 
Kier,  J.  F.  Clarkson,  F.  J.  Reichert,  James  Kirkwood, 
A.  W.  Benson,  George  ]\Iiller,  Duncan  Brown,  John 
H.  Hatfield  and  Samuel  B.  Alderson.     The   complete 


108  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTETIY. 

roll  of  elders  is  Geo.  AV.  Marquis,  A.  Faris,  Harry  C. 
Wilson,  Peter  McKenzie,  Wm.  B.  Travis,  John  C.  Lynn, 
John  Currie,  And.  B.  Craig,  Robert  Lynn,  H.  K.  Noel, 
J.  W.  Botkin  and  James  H.  Filson.  It  has  been  self- 
supporting  since  1888. 

This  large,  able  and  very  liberal  church  has  also 
contributed  to  the  work  of  the  Master,  one  minister, 
John  A.  Currie,  son  of  Elder  Currie,  and  one  devoted 
missionary  to  our  American  Highlanders,  Miss  Sarah 
E.  McMullen. 

The  sketch  we  give  is  condensed  from  one  written 
by  Mrs.  J.  A.  Postlewaite  and  furnished  by  Mrs.  Geo. 
S.  Luckhardt. 

Miss  Sarah  E.  ]\IcMullen  Avas  born  and  educated 
in  Pennsylvania,  and  came  in  1890,  from  Stella,  Neb., 
to  Tarkio,  as  a  public  school  teacher.  As  elder 
daughter  she  was  a  dependence,  counsellor  and  sym- 
pathizer in  the  home  circle,  as  among  friends,  and  no 
less  an  ever  ready  helper  in  every  department  of 
Christian  work.  She  spent  nearly  two  years  in  Bible 
study  in  the  Moody  Institute  and  in  city  mission  work 
in  Chicago.  Dedicating  her  life  to  the  work  among 
the  mountaineers,  she  went  to  Jarrold's  Valley,  W. 
Va.,  in  October,  1896. 

The  record  of  her  work  is  from  her  letters  to  per- 
sonal friends.  In  the  first  three  months  she  attended 
seventy-five  meetings,  which  she  usually  conducted, 
and  made  217  visits.-  All  the  traveling  had  to  be  done 
on  horseback  or  on  foot,  over  the  worst  of  roads,  cross- 
ing and  re-crossing  bridgeless  streams.  And  for 
wearied  body  and  intensely  active  and  overtasked 
mind,  there  was  no  home  for  relaxation  and  recupera- 
tion except  such  as  was  offered  by  the  crude  civiliza- 
tion of  this  primitive  people.  We  cannot  wonder  that 
failing  health  compelled  her  to  lay  down  her  work  in 
June,  1897,  when  she  went  to  Pennsylvania,  hoping  to 
regain  her  health. 

But  God  had  otherwise  ordained,  and  on  the  5th 
of  August,  He  took  to  Himself  the  brave  spirit  which 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  109 

had  so  honored  Him  in  life.  Dr.  Humble  says:  "Hers 
was  a  heroic,  self-sacrificing  life,  and  though  dead  she 
yet  speaketh  through  her  mountain  people." 


The  Fairview  congregation  was  organized  by  Rev. 
J.  M.  Ragan,  August  9,  1874,  and  was  known  as  High 
Prairie  congregation  till  about  1884.  It  was  received 
under  the  care  of  Chillieothe  Presbytery,  October  4, 
1874.  The  names  of  the  constitutional  members : 
Lethe  J.  Allen,  John,  Martha,  Mary  and  Policy  Palmer, 
Mary  J.,  Phebe  and  A¥m.  Patton,  Magdalena  Ruby, 
Clark,  Hattie  and  Mahala  A.  Smith,  and  George,  Nancy 
and  Susie  Tipton. 

The  above  information  was  kindly  furnished  in 
December,  1906,  by  Wm.  J.  Smith,  Clerk  of  Session. 
We  gather  the  following  additional  items  from  printed 
Minutes. 

The  recent  pastors  are  E.  L.  Uptegrove,  J.  R.  Ad- 
kins  and  Amos  Coen.  The  present  elders  are  F.  Mill- 
sted,  F.  3rownhill,  J.  Minor  and  J.  W.  Snider.  The 
church,  valued  at  $700,  is  situated  four  miles  west  of 
Chula  and  four  miles  south  of  Winston. 


110  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTEllY. 


1875—1885. 

The  AValkiip's  Grove  congregation  .was  organized 
December  3,  1876,  at  the  Walkup's  Grove  school  house^ 
with  six  members :  Silas  C.  Combs,  Maggie  TurnbuU, 
Henry  R.  AValkup,  Mary  F.  Walknp,  Marguerite  Walk- 
up  and  Wm.  R.  Walkup.  H.  R.  Walkup  was  chosen 
elder. 

Leander  F.  Hayes  was  the  pastor  most  of  the  time 
from  1876  till  1898,  alternating  after  1890  with  0.  D. 
Allen,  the  present  pastor.  For  some  years  about  1900 
and  after,  the  church  was  much  reduced  and  discour- 
aged, but  in  1906,  it  was  greatly  revived.  The  house 
of  worship,  on  a  two  acre  lot  about  nine  miles  east  by 
south  of  Fairfax,  which  cost  about  $2,000  originally, 
has  been  modernized  recently  at  an  expenditure  of 
over  $500.  The  complete  list  of  elders  is — H.  R.  Walk- 
up,  J.  M.  West,  John  Hogland,  Timothy  H.  Proud,  Silas 
C.  Combs,  Philip  Drayer,  Wm.  M.  Goldsberry,  T.  F. 
Rolofson,  J.  B.  Smith,  G.  W.  C.  Littell,  S.  E.  Proud, 
AValter  B.  Littell  and  James  Thompson. 

For  the  above  we  are  indebted  to  Elder  W.  B.  Lit- 
tell. 


The  Round  Grove  Cumberland  Presbyterian  congre- 
gation was  organized  September  15,  1877,  by  Rev.  F. 
Mitchell  Miller,  with  the  following  members:  Anna 
and  S.  C.  Broderick,  Eliz.  D.,  Harrison  V.,  James  E., 
James  M.,  Jos.  S.,  Martha  J.,  M.  E.,  M.  J.,  R.  F.  M.,  S. 
Nancy  and  S.  Thomas  Clark,  David  F.,  Mary  F.  and 
Mary  J.  Fitzgerald,  And.  C,  B.  Caroline,  Cassandra  F., 
Clementina  B.,  John  R.,  Nathaniel,  Newton  K.  and 
R.  May  Gartin  and  David  F.  Jameson.  The  list  of 
elders  is :  D.  F.  Fitzgerald,  A.  C.  Gartin,  D.  F.  Jameson, 
C.  L.  Owen  and  Daniel  Fore. 

The  church  has  been  served  by  Revs.  C.  C.  Luce,  C. 

B.  Powers,  J.  H.  Tharp,  J.  H.  Norman,  W.  0.  H.  Perry, 

C.  E.  Hayes,  S.  T.  Divinia,  H.  R.  Norris,  A.  S.  ]\[cDaniel, 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTE'RY.  Ill 

M.  Lowe,  R.  J.  Beard,  L.  F.  Hayes,  0.  D.  Allen,  J.  Fro- 
man,  E.  L.  Uptegrove  and  J.  M.  Glick. 

The  above  was  furnished  by  Elder  D.  F.  Jameson, 
Clerk  of  the  congregation.  The  house  of  worship,  val- 
ued at  $7C0,  is  situated  near  Darlington, 


The  Craig  church  was  organized  in  the  school  house 
September  16,  1877,  by  Kevs.  J.  W.  Allen  and  Duncan 
Brown  and  Elder  W.  W.  Frazer  with  six  members : 
Dr.  S.  S.  Bacon,  A.  M.  Hunter,  S.  P.  Jewell,  Mrs.  E.  F. 
"Welch,  Mrs.  Harriet  M.  Wilson,  and  W.  B.  Wilson. 
S.  P.  Jewell  was  chosen  elder.  Mr.  Brown,  then  sup- 
plying the  Mound  City  Church,  had  been  preaching  in 
the  school  house  for  about  three  months,  and  on  Sep- 
tember 2nd,  S.  S.  Bacon,  A.  M.  Hunter  and  W.  B. 
Wilson  had  been  elected  trustees. 

The  elders  who  have  served  the  church  are  S.  P. 
Jewell,  S.  S.  Bacon,  G.  W.  Gasldll,  A.  M.  Hunter,  J. 
W.  Nauman,  W.  L.  Riffe,  S.  K.  Allen,  T.  D.  Frazer, 
L.  A.  Shipley  and  S.  E.  Judy ;  the  ministers :  Duncan 
Brown,  B.  D.  Luther,  D.  C.  Smith,  James  Reed,  A.  P. 
Haydon,  M.  E.  Krotzer,  John  A.  Currie  and  R.  Bruce 
West ;  the  deacons :  W.  B.  Wilson,  Robert  Lyons,  Wm. 
Thaver,  H.  S.  Hogue,  F.  S.  Brownfield,  G.  W.* Ballinger, 
J.  H.  Riffe,  W.  T.  Crews  and  Chas.  McClandish. 

In  1879,  this  solid  church  built  a  solid  brick  church, 
thirty  by  fifty  feet,  at  a  cost  of  $3,000.  The  manse  is 
on  a  lot  100  by  110  feet. 

The  above  is  from  a  very  complete  and  concise 
sketch  by  Elder  A.  M.  Hunter,  long  the  clerk  of  Ses- 
sion, who  has  served  the  church  over  twenty-nine  years. 


The  records  of  the  Stanberry  Church  having  been 
burned  and  no  information  furnished  by  the  church 
itself,  what  is  here  given  has  been  gathered  at  a  great 
expenditure  of  time,  from  various  sources. 


112  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

The  church  was  organized  by  Revs.  J.  W.  Allen,  F. 
G.  Strange  and  B.  D.  Luther.  1883  has  been  given  as 
the  date  of  organization,  but  1880  is  undoubtedly  the 
true  date,  as  Dr.  Allen  was  not  Synodical  Missionary 
after  that  year,  and  Dr.  Strange,  who  was  then  at  Em- 
pire Prairie,  went  to  Hiawatha,  Kans.,  before  May, 
1881.  Dr.  Strange  writes:  ''If  my  memory  is  correct, 
the  Stanberry  Church  was  organized  in  October,  1880. 
The  town  was  started  in  a  corn  field.  The  services  at 
which  the  organization  was  effected  were  held  in  the 
upstairs  of  a  new,  unfinished  building.  The  railroad 
was  not  yet  completed." 

Miss  Ida  Birge  and  Dr.  R.  R.  Dunshee  were  among 
the  charter  members.  The  church  has  been  served  by 
Revs.  Duncan  Brown,  Carson  Reed,  T.  M.  Hillman,  A. 
W.  McGlothlan,  D.  C.  Smith  and  C.  C.  Armstrong, 
and  Elders  L.  A.  Kimball,  Wm.  Miller,  C.  F.  Gardner, 
J.  W.  Huggins,  John  Davis,  Edgar  M.  Hurlburt,  J.  C. 
Dhume,  Dr.  J.  A.  Hawthorne,  C.  C.  T^^ard,  D.  G.  Boleyn, 
John  Kuyler,  W.  H.  Fawcett,  ^\.  C.  Porter,  L.  A.  Cook, 
W.  C.  Smothers,  T.  J.  Smith,  J.  H.  McGinnis,  Owen  L. 
Smith,  Dr.  E.  P.  Campbell,  N.  E.  Reynold,  and  Wm. 
Sterritt.  Elder  0.  L.  Smith  has  been  the  Clerk  of- 
Session  for  several  years.  The  church  has  a  frame 
house  of  worship,  is  grouped  with  Knox,  and  has 
preaching  half  of  the  time,  with  a  flourishing  Sabbath 
school. 


The  following  is  taken  from  "Twenty-Five  Years 
of  Tarkio  Congregation,"  by  Prof.  J.  Yallance  Brown, 
published  in  The  United  Presbyterian,  of  June  14, 
1906. 

''In  August  of  1880  the  surveyor  put  Tarkio  on  the 
map.  Some  three  or  four  months  later.  Rev.  R.  M. 
Sherrard  conducted  the  initial  religious  meeting  in  the 
only  availal)le  building,  the  primitive  temple  of  the 
prairie  lands,  the  railroad  station.  On  the  ninth  of 
June,  1881,  the  maiden  service  of  the  first  public  hall 
was  the  formal  organization  of  the  Tarkio  congrega- 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  113 

tion  by  the  pioneer  missionary,  preacher  and  supply. 
The  first  elder  was  Mr.  J.  F.  Hanna,  one  of  the  most 
influential  in  the  history  of  the  congregation.  The 
winter  following  Tarkio  united  with  York  in  calling 
Rev.  R.  H.  Barnes.  March  14,  1882,  dates  his  accept- 
ance. On  May  5,  1888,  Mr.  W.  0.  Miller  became  second 
ruling  elder.  Summer  of  the  same  year  saw  a  $5,000 
building  erected  without  help  from  the  Board  of 
Church  Extension.  With  June  of  1885,  Rev.  Barnes 
gave  York  his  entire  time. 

''The  memories  of  the  'western  Sunday,'  on  which 
the  first  pastor  preached  his  initial  sermon.  It  was 
afternoon  of  the  last  Sabbath  of  November,  1881.  The 
half-story  upper  room  over  the  grocery  story  held  six 
early  listeners.  Stragglers  numbered  two  or  three. 
Outside  were, crowds  and  open  booths.  Pounding  ham- 
mers well  nigh  drowned  the  preacher's  appeals. 

"The  longest  (the  second)  pastorate  was  that  of 
Rev.  W.  P.  McNary,  D.  D.  May  3,  1886  dates  his  call ; 
July  1,  his  entrance  on  the  work.  Not  until  September 
1,  1899,  was  the  relation  dissolved.  Three  statements 
^re  suggestive.  Membership  attained  to  390.  On 
March  15,  1896,  the  present  $18,000  edifice  was  dedi- 
cated. In  1899,  the  Committee  of  Missions  met  in  Tar- 
kio. Dr.  McNary  was  also  active  in  college  interests. 
For  practically  his  entire  pastorate  he  was  president 
of  the  Board  of  Directors,  and  was  later  an  efficient 
financial  agent. 

"On  February  28,  1900,  Rev.  R.  B.  A.  McBride  was 
called.  On  the  first  of  April  he  entered  the  work.  His 
first  year  was  'the  year  of  the  great  revival'  in  Tarkio 
nnd  community  under  Williams  and  Alexander.  A  not- 
able sequel  was  the  communion  occasion  of  December 
16,  1900.  Seventy-six  accessions  were  reported.  Sixty- 
four  of  these  were  by  profession  and  baptism.  An 
event  of  wider  historic  interest  was  the  meeting  of  the 
memorable  'Missionary'  Assembly  of  1903,  in  Tarkio. 
On  October  8,  1905,  the  pulpit  was  again  vacated. 


114  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTE'RY. 

' '  Musical  history :  At  first  an  elder  '  took  the  pitch ' 
and  led  the  congregation.  A  favorite  opening  refrain 
was  from  the  long  meter  of  the  twenty-second  Psalm: 

To  Thee  in  praise,  I'll  lift  my  song, 
Amid  the  great  assemJ:)led  throng; 

"In  the  application  'the  great  assembled  throng' 
numbered  ordinarily — seven!  Later,  the  session  'se- 
lected twelve  members  to  constitute  a  choir.'  March 
26,  1899,  Session  was  petitioned  to  grant  the  congrega- 
tion an  opportunity  to  express  itself  on  the  use  of  an 
instrument  in  worship.  September  9,  1899,  Session's 
committee  on  choir  was  authorized  to  rent  a  piano. 
The  pipe-organ  was  installed  in  1903.  The  present 
choir  consists  of  forty-two." 

Prof.  Brown,  who  is  also  Clerk  of  Session,  wrote 
December  16,  1907:  ''To  the  article  enclosed  must  be 
added  our  present  pastor.  Rev.  E.  C.  Little,  w^ho  settled 
with  us  a  3^ear  ago.  Below  you  will  also  find  a  list  of  the 
charter  sixteen:  Mrs.  James  Anderson,  Mrs.  Sarah 
Black,  Wm.  A.  Carothers,  Mrs.  Ollie  Foster,  S.  S.  Fos- 
ter, J.  F.  Hanna,  Mrs.  Nettie  V.  Hanna,  Miss  Sarah. 
Ingstrum,  T.  S.  McCullough,  INIrs.  Lon  Miller,  Robert 
F.  Miller,  W.  0.  Miller,  Mrs.  Esther  Phillips,  Isaac 
PhilliDs,  Mrs.  Nina  Stevenson,  and  R.  M.  Stevenson. ' ' 

Something  will  be  said  later,  in  the  sketch  of  Tarkio 
College,  of  the  ministers  and  missionaries,  many  of 
whom  were  doubtless  temporary  members  of  this 
church,  and  some  of  them  probably  raised  up  in  it. 


In  August,  1908,  Elder  T.  D.  Frazer,  Clerk  of  Ses- 
sion of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  St.  Joseph, 
sent  a  very  full  and  exact  memorandum  of  its  history, 
from  which  the  following  is  taken,  verbally  or  in  sub- 
stance : 

The  records  of  the  Session  state:  "July  11,  1881,. 
the  Lafayette  Presbytery  appointed  Revs.  R.  S.  Camp- 
bell and  II.  S.  P.   Willis  and  Elder  W.  P.  Sanders  a 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTE'RY.  115 

committee  to  arrange  for  the  organization  of  a  church. 
The  committee  met  and  enrolled  the  following  persons : 
Mrs.  Agnes  Abercrombie,  Thomas  Crawford  and  wife, 
Mrs.  Mary  Gibson  and  Miss  Lauretta  Richards,  all 
from  the  P'irst  Church,  and  Mrs.  R.  G.  Brown  from 
Hiawatha,  Kans,  and  on  profession  of  faith,  Miss  Clara 
Richards,  Elizabeth  Richards,  Katie  Sever  and  Magda- 
line  Walker. 

"This  action  was  reported  to  Presbytery  and  the 
committee  was  instructed  to  complete  the  work  of  or- 
ganization. Oct.  7,  1881,  the  committee  met  and  added 
the  following  names  to  the  list  of  members:  B.  B. 
Frazer,  Sr.,  and  wife,  B.  B.  Frazer,  Jr.,  T.  D.  Frazer, 
J.  E.  Hewlett  and  wife,  Samuel  M.  Beattie,  Miss  Lu- 
emma  Dimmitt,  Miss  Bettie  Glaskin  and  Dr.  J.  M.  Rich- 
mond and  wife,  all  from  the  First  Church ;  also  Chester 
L.  Evans,  of  Oregon,  Mo.,  B.  B.  Frazer,  Sr.,  and 
J.  E.  Hewlett,  who  had  been  elders  in  the  First  Church 
were  chosen  and  installed  elders  in  this  church.  Rev. 
George  Miller,  of  Oregon,  Mo.,  accepted  a  call  as  stated 
supply,  and  entered  on  his    duties  October  1,  1881." 

"The  following  ministers  have  acceptably  served 
the  church :  Geo.  Miller,  B.  H.  Dupuy,  W.  S.  Trimble, 
W.  S.  Foreman,  and  L.  E.  McNair.  Rev.  McNair  re- 
signed Nov.  3,  1907.  The  pulpit  has  been  supplied 
since  by  Rev.  Duncan  Brown,  till  the  middle  of  May, 
and  by  Rev.  W.  AV.  Harrison  since.  The  following  per- 
sons have  served  the  church  as  elders :  B.  B.  Frazer,  Sr., 
J.  E.  Hewlett,  John  Williams,  John  L.  Leonard,  T.  D. 
Frazer,  M.  C.  Powell,  C.  R.  McCoy  and  R.  W.  McDon- 
ald. The  following  persons  have  served  the  church 
as  deacons:  James  W.  Patrick,  T.  D.  Frazer,  M.  C. 
Powell,  James  Ferguson,  M.  L.  Seip,  John  L.  Leonard, 
Wm.  Ewing,  John  Massey,  Floyd  C.  Stannard,  David 
Aitchison,  Chas.  A.  Hensley,  A.  W.  Coats,  W.  R.  Mach- 
ett,  Daniel  L.  Sims,  J.  W.  Koch  and  F.  H.  Bierman. 

!'The  Church  and  Sabbath  school  have  always  been 
active  workers.  The  Sabbath  school  has  been  super- 
intended continuously  the  last  twenty-five  years  by  M. 


116  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

C.  Powell.  Mr.  Powell  has  several  times  desired  to  re- 
tire, but  at  the  urgent  request  of  the  school  has  re- 
mained." 

This  organization  is  the  outgrowth  of  a  Sunday 
school  started  about  1870,  on  Penn  street,  nearly  oppo- 
site where  the  church  now  stands.  It  was  superintend- 
ed from  the  first  up  to  1881  by  Col.  John  F.  Tyler,  who 
paid  the  rent  of  the  room  in  which  it  was  held.  Miss 
Lauretta  Richards  was  very  active  in  the  Sabbath 
school  both  before  and  after  the  organization  of  the 
church.  Manj^  times  when  the  attendance  was  very 
small,  she  acted  as  superintendent  and  all  the  other 
officers.  No  doubt  her  fidelity  was  the  means  of  keep- 
ing up  the  school. 


The  Grant  City  Church  was  organized  October  8, 
1881,  by  Rev.  E.  B.  Sherwood  and  Elders  Walter  Glad- 
stone and  Wm.  A.  Patton,  with  the  following  members : 
AVm.  C.  and  Helen  Gladstone,  Mrs.  Caroline  Harrison, 
Mrs.  Martha  Hicks,  Mrs.  Araminta  (James)  Kerr,  Hen- 
ry E.  and  Mary  J.  Martin,  Mrs.  L.  A.  Raplee,  Wm.  N. 
and  Mary  E.  Woods  and  Thomas  J.  and  Sarah  B.  Wors- 
ter.  W.  C.  Gladstone  and  H.  E.  Martin  were  elected 
elders.  The  elders  elected  since  are  Stokely  C.  Da- 
vidson, Chas.  L.  Wheeler,  B.  F.  Lucas,  Geo.  H.  Hota- 
ling,  John  Stalder,  A.  W.  Kelso,  Erdley  0.  Sayle  and 
John  F.  Robertson.  The  church  has  been  supplied  by 
Wm.  Meyer,  Carson  Reed,  James  Kirkwood,  Duncan 
McRuer,  Jr.,  Edward  H.  Bull  and  Allen  D.  Seelig. 

A  Sabbath  school  was  begun  three  months  after 
the  church  was  organized  and  has  been  very  prosper- 
ous. A  frarae  church  costing  $3,000  and  replacing  the 
old  one  was  dedicated  April  26,  1891,  free  of  debt. 

For  the  above  we  are  indebted  to  Dr.  S.  C.  David- 
son, elder  for  over  twenty  years.  Clerk  of  Session  for 
sixteen,  and  Sabbath  school  superintendent  for  prob- 
ably a  longer  period. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  117 

Elder  E.  H.  White,  Clerk  of  Session,  the  sustaining 
and  inspiring  power  of  the  whole  community  as  well 
as  the  church  which  he  has  served  for  twenty-two 
years,  though  a  very  busy  man,  has  kindly  furnished 
the  following: 

The  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Fairfax  was 
organized  March  18,  1882,  by  Rev.  E.  B.  Sherwood  and 
Elders  Robert  Montgomery  and  Geo.  "W.  Gaskill,  with 
eight  members :  TIenry  L.  and  Abbie  E.  Allen,  Thomas 
Bright,  Wm.  Newton  and  Julia  Curry,  S.  P.  and  Ida  S. 
Jewell  and  Mrs.  Anna  Lininger,  W.  N.  Curry  and  S. 
P.  Jewell  were  elected  elders.  To  these  have  been 
added  H.  L.  Allen,  E.  TI.  White,  J.  Harvey  Laird,  A. 
C.  Hayes,  James  Thompson  and  Ruffner  Dunlap. 

Its  ministers  are  Wilson  Asdale,  Chas.  W.  Price, 
James  Kirkwood,  D.  C.  Smith,  James  Reed,  James  E. 
Leyda,  J.  C.  Gilkerson,  Wisel  Beale,  Robert  S.  Wat- 
son, Donald  S.  West,  John  Duncan  and  J.  M.  Bell. 

The  church  was  built  in  1882,  costing  about  $2,200. 
The  manse  cost  $750.  This  is  a  missionary  church, 
having  an  outstation  at  Nishnabotna. 


For  several  years  Union  Star  had  been  considered 
an  outpost  of  Empire  Prairie  whose  ministers  held  ser- 
vices there  as  they  had  opportunity.  In  1882,  a  Union 
church,  in  which  the  Presbj^terians  of  Union  Star  had 
a  one-fourth  interest,  having  been  built,  a  petition  was 
presented  Platte  Presbytery  asking  for  an  organiza- 
tion. Presbytery  appointed  Revs.  E.  B.  Sherwood  and 
Wm.  Meyer  and  Elder  James  W.  Porterfield  to  visit 
the  field.  They  met  at  Union  Star,  September  29,  1882, 
and  on  October  first,  completed  the  organization  of  the 
church  Avith  the  following  members :  A.  A.  Daugherty 
and  wife,  Mrs.  Maggie  Hudson,  Mrs.  Rebecca  Lowe, 
Miss  Annie  Miller,  Geo.  Moyes  and  wife.  Miss  Jennie 
Moyes,  J.  C.  Ogden  and  wife.  Misses  Julia  and  Kate 
Ogden,  John  Patterson  and  wife,  Mrs.  Mary  Teanor 
and  Miss  Harriet  N.  White.     Judge  A.  A.  Daugherty 


118  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

was  elected  elder.    Miss  Ansie  Ilerron  was  received  on 
profession  the  next  day. 

The  elders  elected  since  then  are  W.  S.  Earls,  Geo. 
Moyes,  AValter  L.  Reynolds,  James  L.  Landers,  Geo.  D. 
Burton,  Samuel  Stewart  and  Geo.  A.  Moyes.  James 
Moj^es  is  deacon. 

Kev.  F.  E.  Thompson  was  the  first  pastor,  and  he 
has  been  followed  by  J.  F,  Clarkson,  W.  Weaver,  J. 

B.  Rice,  S.  W.  Richards,  James  Reed,  F.  W.  Grossman, 

C.  C.  Armstrong,  U.  G.  Schell  and  D.  M.  Boyer. 

November  30,  1895,  the  Ladies  Aid  Society  pur- 
chased a  half  acre  lot  on  which  a  neat  church  was 
erected ;  all  now  valued  at  about  $2,400. 

The  above  was  furnished  by  Rev.  James  Reed,  who 
knows  more  about  the  churches  of  Platte  Presbytery 
than  any  other  man  living. 


The  Kingston  Church  was  organized  May  18,  1884, 
by  Revs.  John  C.  Young,  Thomas  Marshall  and  C.  W. 
Higgins,  with  the  following  members :  Abijah  W.  and 
Julia  A.  Bishop,  Mrs.  Belle  Buxton,  Mrs.  Laura  Dodge, 
Mrs.  Mary  Higgins,  Edward  D.  and  Emily  Johnson, 
Jacob  and  Mary  A.  Krautz,  ]\Irs.  Hannah  L.  Lambert, 
Dr.  Daniel  Neff,  James  A.  Rathbun  and  Mrs.  Mary 
C.  Spivey.  D.  Neff  and  J.  A.  Rathburn  were  elected 
elders,  and  E.  D.  Johnson,  A.  W.  Bishop  and  R.  D. 
Sackman,  trustees;  C.  S.  McGlothlan  became  trustee 
later. 

The  church,  thirty  by  forty  feet,  was  built  in  1868 
by  the  Congregationalists,  and  purchased  from  them 
in  1884,  for  $750,  (according  to  a  history  in  the  Kansas 
City  Library).    The  manse  lot  contains  an  acre. 

The  church  has  been  ministered  to  by  C.  W.  Hig- 
gins, A.  B.  Goodale,  G.  E.  Northrup,  La  Theo.  lobe, 
John  Weston,  E.  S.  Farrand,  A.  B.  Byram,  C.  P.  Blay- 
ney  and  W.  E.  Barksdale. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  119 

The  roll  of  elders  is  D.  Neff,  J  .A.  Rathbun,  John 
McNaug'hton,  L.  M.  Spivey,  Wm,  Spivey,  John  W.  Sni- 
der, Geo.  K.  Dodge,  Lee  Bridgewater,  C.  S.  McLaugh- 
lin and  Q.  T.  Jones. 

The  church  was  in  a  discouraging  condition,  being 
much  depleted  by  removals,  but  has  lately  been  greatly 
revived  and  has  taken  on  new  life. 

For  the  above  we  are  indebted  to  Elders  L.  M.  and 
AVm.  Spivey. 


On  February  28,  1885,  Rev.  Duncan  McRuer  and 
Elder  James  Scott,  a  committee  appointed  by  Platte 
Presbytery,  proceeded,  after  due  consideration,  to  or- 
ganize a  church  in  New  Hamj^ton,  there  being  no  other 
church  in  the  place.  The  charter  members  were  :  Mich- 
al  and  Elizabeth  Scott  Cochrane,  Josiah  W.  and  Mary 
S.  Corell,  Mrs.  IMargaret  Tennant,  Geo.  Tennant,  and 
John  W.  and  Caroline  D.  Virden.  Of  these  Messrs. 
Virden,  Cochrane  and  Corell  were  elected  elders.  M. 
Cochrane  was  chosen  Clerk  of  Session,  and  served  the 
church  faithfully  in  that  capacity  until  September  19, 
1897,  when  he  resigned  because  of  infirmity  and  age. 
''Those  who  have  been  possibly  the  most  faithful  and 
instrumental  in  the  continued  existence  of  the  church 
and  Sabbath  school  are  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cochrane,  Mrs. 
Wm.  Virden,  Miss  Naomi  Virden,  Mr.  Albert  McMillen, 
Miss  Sarah  Williams,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Geo.  Tennant. ' ' 

The  church,  twenty-eight  by  forty  feet,  was  erected 
in  1885,  at  a  cost  of  $1200.'  The  very  comfortable 
manse  built  in  1902  at  a  cost  of  $1,000,  owes  its  ex- 
istence largely  to  the  Virden  family,  who  contributed 
half  of  the  amount. 

The  church  has  been  served  by  Revs.  D.  McRuer, 
James  A.  McKay,  Chas.  P.  Blayney,  James  Reed  and 
Henry  A.  Brown ;  and  Elders  Cochrane,  Corell,  Virden, 
A.  L.  Funk  and  John  Tennant. 

The  church  has  always  been  especially  strong  in 
its  Sabbath  school. 


120  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

The  above  was  furnished  by  Elder  A.  L.  Funk^ 
Clerk  of  Session,  for  nearly  twelve  years  and  the  effi- 
cient and  enthusiastic  superintendent  of  the  Sabbath 
school  for  ten  years. 


Elder  Charles  Baker,  Clerk  of  Session,  wrote  in 
June,  1907:  "The  Cumberland  Presbyterian  congre- 
gation was  organized  in  the  Congregational  church 
building  at  Mabel  P.  0.  on  May  17,  1885,  by  Rev.  El- 
bert S.  Ragan.  Sallie  Bendure,  John  Blackburn,  Retta 
Blackburn,  Ella  F.  Crum,  L.  W.  Crum,  Kate  Davis,. 
Mary  E.  Hainline,  J.  E.  Medlar,  Annabell  Webb  and 
John  Webb  were  the  charter  members.  Ministers :  E. 
S.  Ragan,  S.  A.  McPherson,  M.  T.  Bell.  Ruling  elders : 
John  Webb,  L.  W.  Crum,  Frank  Blackburn,  Adam 
Reiminschneider,  John  Blackburn,  Chas.  Baker,  E. 
M.  Smith,  Wm.  McHenry  and  Guy  Hunter. 

Nothing  additional  or  later  has  come  to  hand. 


The  Linkville  congregation  was  organized  Nov.  23, 
1885,  at  Mt.  Pleasant  (Second  Creek)  by  Rev.  C.  B. 
Hodges.  The  charter  members  were  Pete  Baron  and 
wife,  F.  W.  Hilbus  and  wife,  Anna  Hodges,  C.  B. 
Hodges  and  wife,  J.  J.  Hodges  and  wife,  Jesse  Hodges, 
R.  T.  Hodges  and  wife,  Wm.  McMonigle  and  wife,  Mrs. 
Nancy  Slaughter,  Mrs.  Amanda  Taylor  and  Mrs.  Lee 
Vance. 

The  church  has  been  served  by  Revs.  James  Fro- 
man,  L.  Munkirs,  S.  T.  Divinia,  W.  0.  H.  Perry,  Arthur 
Perry,  S.  H.  Murray,  J.  H.  Norman,  J.  C.  Moore  and 
D.  M.  Boyer ;  and  by  elders  J.  J.  Hodges,  R.  T.  Hodges„ 
F.  W.  Hilbus,  W.  W.  Morrow  and  Scott  Jones.  Rev. 
James  Froman  is  the  present  pastor. 

Elder  F.  W.  Hilbus,  Clerk  of  Session,  kindly  fur- 
nished the  above. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  121 


1886-1907. 

Oower  Presbyterian  Church  was  organized  May  20, 
1886,  by  a  Commission  of  Upper  Missouri  Presbytery, 
consisting  of  Rev.  J.  A.  D.  Hughes,  Chairman,  Rev. 
H.  B.  Boude,  D.  D.,  Elder  W.  P.  Hooper,  of  Plattsburg 
Church  and  Elder  John  L.  Wylie  of  Stewartsville 
Church.  Thomas  Hall  and  F.  R.  Allen  were  elected 
and  ordained  Ruling  Elders;  John  C.  Atchison  and  D. 
S.  Hall,  Deacons ;  and  William  Hammett,  Trustee.  Soon 
after,  date  not  given,  N.  G.  Cummings  and  Calvin  M. 
Graves,  having  been  elders  in  other  churches,  were 
elected  Eldersi;  and  William  Hammett,  elected  and 
ordained  Deacon.  Beside  the  above  the  following  be- 
came charter  members:  Mrs.  Mattie  Allen,  Mrs.  Mary 
F.  Gartin,  Mrs.  M.  J.  Graves,  Miss  Annie  Hall,  Mrs. 
Edna  F.  Hall,  Mrs.  Emma  Hall,  Mrs.  Inez  C.  Hall,  Mrs. 
Virginia  Hammett,  Miss  Minnie  Pryor,  Mrs.  Celia 
Smith,  Samuel  Starrett  and  Mrs.  J.  E.  White.  Rev.  J. 
A.  D.  Hughes  became  the  first  regular  monthly  supply, 
and  the  following  succeeded  him,  in  the  order  named : 
L.  E,  IMcNair,  0.  W.  Ganss  (installed  as  pastor),  Chas. 
P.  Foreman,  J.  M.  Campbell,  Xenophon  Ryland,  and 
James  B.  Carpenter,  our  present  worthy  supply.  The 
present  officers  are  Elders  F.  R.  Allen,  A.  C.  Cummino:s 
and  William  Hammett;  Deacons  J.  C.  Atchison  and 
Robert  C.  Cummings. 

Our  church  was  built  in  1896.  With  lots  and  all  we 
estimate  the  cost  $2,500;  all  paid  for.  The  Ladies  Aid 
Society  furnished  some  things.  The  organ  and  Bible 
stand  were  presents. 

Elder  William  Hammett,  Clerk  of  Se  sion,  most 
courteously  and  promptly  furnished  the  above  in  July, 
1907. 


The  Tina  Church  was  organized  December  19,  1886, 
by  Rev.  Thos  Marshall  and  Elders  Thos.  H.  Trussell 
and  Dr.  W.  H.  Dice,  with  the  following  members:  Mary 
Allen,  R.  D.  Allen,  Mrs.  J.  Austin,  Mariah  Beans,  Mrs. 


123  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Mary  Campbell,  Alice  Crose,  Mrs.  M.  Crose,  Stephen 
Crose,  Mrs.  Crose,  Emma  Dice,  W.  H.  Dice,  Wm.  For- 
sj^lie,  Mrs.  A.  B.  'Ross,  G.  T.  Ross,  Jesse  States,  Tkos. 
H.  and  Margaret  Trussell,  Alice  Wamick  and  John 
Warnick.  Dr.  W.  H.  Dice  and  T.  H.  Trussell  were 
elected  elders.  Dr.  Dice,  a  veteran  pioneer,  did  the 
preliminary  work.  He  wrote  in  October,  1905,  "The 
church  was  made  up  of  members  of  the  Coloma  and 
Rockford  churches,  with  Wm.  Forsythe  and  wife  of 
the  Avalon  Church." 

This  church  because  it  was  the  first  one  organized 
in  the  town,  received  from  the  Burlington  R.  R.  Co., 
the  gift  of  a  lot  on  which  a,  frame  building,  costing 
$800,  was  erected  in  1888.  It  has  been  supplied  by 
Revs.  George  Case,  W.  C.  McCune,  A.  J.  Harmon,  A.  D. 
Wolfe,  T.  C.  Armstrong,  L.  W.  Cunningham  and  Ira 
W.  Barnett:  and  served  by  Elders  T.  H.  Trussell,  W. 
H.  Dice,  J,  R.  West,  James  Edmonds,  Robert  R.  Wilson, 
Isaac  Edmonds,  Leslie  G.  Venard,  R.  D.  Allen,  J.  G. 
McGa^ughey,  John  L.  Dickerson,  E.  M.  Ross  and  B.  A. 
Wilmot. 

For  most  of  the  above  we  are  indebted  to  Elder  J. 
G.  McGaughey,  Clerk  of  Session,  and  his  daughter, 
Miss  Kate.  

The  Green  Valley  Congregation  was  organized  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1889,  by  Rev.  F^  M.  Miller,  half  a  mile  north 
of  the  city  limits  of  St.  Joseph.  It  was  known  as  the 
Oak  Grove  Congregation  till  in  1900.  It  now  has  a 
good  church,  valued  at  $2500,  two  miles  northwest  of 
St.  Joseph,  and  a  glebe.  The  recent  pastors  are  J.  Tur- 
ner Hood,  J.  H.  Tharp  and  G.  L.  Engles.  The  present 
elders  are  W.  D.  Maxwell,  J.  W.  Bond,  J.  C.  Thomas, 
Henry  Peter  and  E.  B.  Teagarden. 

Elder  W.  D.  Maxv^ell  says,  "We  have  services 
three  Sabbaths  in  the  month,  a  midweek  prayer  meet- 
ing, a  Christian  Endeavor,  and  an  ever-areen  Sabbath 
School." 

The  Weatherby  Congregation  was  organized  April 
11,  1889,  by  Rev.  L.  F.  Hayes  with  the  following  mem- 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  133 

bers:  James  N.  Clark,  xSiartiu  M.  Crow,  Sarah  Crow, 
JaJm  Lclie,  Walter  iiClson,  ±iClward  ,(jrraiiam,  ijaura  ii;. 
Graham,  A.  E.  Plarper,  Henry  R.  Harper,  Margaret  A. 
Harper,  Mary  E.  Harper,  JSarah  Howard,  Wm.  M.  How- 
ard, Laura  Kariker,  Chas.  McClure,  John  McClure, 
Hattie  B.  Musser,  Cora  J.  Rhoads,  Eva  E.  Rhoads, 
Caroline  Riggs,  Lillie  Riggs,  Flora  Roper,  Addie 
Thompson,  Georgie  Ward  and  A.  L.  Zimmerman.  H.  R. 
Harper,  J.  McChire  and  J.  N.  Clark  were  elected 
elders. ;  A.  E.  Harper  and  A.  L.  Zimmerman,  deacons. 
The  congregation  was  received  under  the  care  of  Platte 
Presbytery  in  September,  1889. 

The  church  house,  thirty  by  fifty  feet,  built  in 
1890-1,  cost  $1600.  The  adjoining  lot,  owned  by  the 
church,  fifty  by  a  hundred  feet,  is  planted  in  maple 
trees. 

The  pastors  have  been  L.  F.  Hayes,  C.  B.  Powers, 
E.  S.  Ragan,  M.  R.  Daugherty,  W.  0.  H.  Perry  and  S. 
T.  Divinia;  the  elders,  H.  R.  Harper,  J.  McClure,  J.  N. 
Clark,  John  Fisher,  J.  W.  Baker.  Chas.  McClure,  W.  B. 
Taylor,  Eugene  E.  DeHart,  C.  B.  Johnson,  Oliver  Mus- 
ser and  S.  A.  Riggs;  and  the  deacons,  A.  L.  Zimmer- 
man, A.  E.  Harper  and  Isom  F.  Riggs. 

Elder  H.  R.  Harper,  Clerk  of  Session,  furnished  the 
above. 


The  Polo  Church  was  organized  January  24,  1893, 
in  the  M.  E.  South  church,  by  Revs.  W.  A.  Cravens 
and  La  Theo  lobe,  and  John  Wilson,  Pastor-at-large, 
with  nine  members:  Thomas  Bathgate,  Miss  Mary 
Bathgate,  Mrs.  Mattie  Carter,  Mrs.  Toney  Estes,  JosepJi 
Frazer,  Mrs.  Mecca  Frazer,  Mrs.  Effie  Madden,  Mrs. 
Maggie  Moss  and  James  Tait.  Messrs.  Tait  and  Bath- 
gate were  chosen  elders.  The  church  w^as  supplied  by 
John  Wilson,  J.  L.  Boyer,  A.  M.  Hendee,  Joel  W.  Todd 
and  James  Reed.  The  reasonable  prospects  of  growth 
which  existed  at  its  organization  having  faded  away, 
it  was  disbanded  by  Presbytery  September  10,  1903. 
It  owed  its  existence  to  the  now  venerable  Elder  Tait, 


124  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

long  an  active  business  man,  who  was  never  contented 
to  live  in  a  place  without  a  Presbyterian  church. 


The  Hope  Church  of  St.  Joseph  was  organized  Nov- 
ember 5,  1892,  by  Revs.  H.  Bullard,  E.  B.  Sherwood, 
C.  B.  McAfee,  F.  Lonsdale  and  H.  W.  Cowan  with  the 
tolloAving-  members:  Wm.  K.  and  Annie  M.  Adams, 
Harlan  E.  Adams,  Mrs.  Arabella  Anderson,  Mrs. 
Catherine  Artlip,  IMrsi.  Mary  E.  Blinn,  iHarvey  S., 
Treneus  P.  and  J.  Edward  Blinn,  Miss  Lucy  E.  Blinn, 
Mrs.  Martha  E.  Baker,  Mrs.  C.  E.  Bethel,  Misses  Goldie 
and  Nannie  K.  Bethel,  Mrs.  Bertha  Brill,  IMisses  Edna, 
Nellie  and  Pearl  Brill,  Miss  Nellie  E  Carrier,  Mrs. 
Martha  Coe,  Mrs.  Annie  L.  Cowan,  Misses  Lavina  K. 
and  Mahala  E.  Davis,  Wm.  M.  Groves,  Mrs.  Susan  S. 
Groves,  Mrs.  Emma  and  Miss  Olive  L.  Hardwick,  Wm. 
S.  Hepburn,  Mrs.  .Maggie  E.  Hepburn,  Miss  Marv  E. 
Hubbell,  Miss  Roxana  Johns,  Mrs.  L.  H.  Jones,  ]\Iisses 
Janet  L.  and  Jessie  R.  Jones,  Wm.  D.  Jones,  Mrs.  Eliz. 
Krinzel,  Harvey  J.  Maun,  Adam  Miller,  Mrs.  Sarah  Mil- 
ler, Mrs.  Susan  R.  IMohler,  Miss  Rosa  IMoser,  Miss 
Mary  T.  Oppliger,  Misses  Emily  P.  and  Laura  P. 
Robinson,  Mrs.  Mary  J.  Rupert,  0.  Schoepfer,  ]\Iiss 
Lizzie  Shank,  Mrs.  Sarah  Shaw,  William  H.  Speaker, 
Mrs.  Mary  Speaker,  IMiss  M.  Christina  Speaker, 
Miss  Glennie  M.  Sells,  Miss  Laura  Stone,  Mrs.  Katie 
B.  Stumpfad,  Mrs.  IMary  Swartz,  Chas.  E.  Swartz, 
Misses  iDinah  and  Emma  Yost,  Mrs.  Sarah  E.  Ziebold, 
Daniel  A.  and  Edward  P.  Ziebold.  Messrs.  W.  K. 
Adams  and  I.  P.  Blinn  were  elected  elders :  and  H.  E. 
Adams  and  W.  M.  Groves,  deacons. 

In  the  sketch  of  Westminster  Church  some  mention 
has  already  been  made  of  the  work  in  Hope  Chapel. 
This  was  built  at  a  cost  of  over  $500,  on  a  lot  bought  bv 
Elder  Herschel  Bartlett  for  $900  and  "placed  at  the 
disposal  of  the  pastor."  ''The  whole  region  was  visv 
ited  from  house  to  house,  and  Sunday  ni^rht  services 
were  arrane-ed  for.  These,  the  Session  placed  in  the 
harids  of  Elder  Arlams,  who  had  so  fullv  proved  his  ef- 
ficiencv  in  evangelistic  work  during  eighteen  months* 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  125 

while  conducting  Sabbath  night  meetings  at  Oak  Grove 
church.  He  had  just  been  released  from  that  work  by 
the  organization  in  the  neighborhood  of  a  Cumberland 
Presbyterian  church,  made  possible  by  a  revival  in 
which  about  forty  of  the  young  people  who  had  been 
regular  attendants  on  Mr.  Adams'  services,  were  con- 
verted. This  duty  was  accepted,  and  for  two  and  a 
half  years  was  carried  on  with  gratifying  success. 
During  the  first  summer  Elder  Butler  assisted,  till  he 
left  the  city.  The  next  two  summers  theological 
students  were  employed  during  their  vacations,  until 
in  September,  1891,  it  (became  evident  to  Mr.  Adams 
and  the  Session  that  the  time  had  come  when  some 
minister  should  be  regularly  employed.  Rev.  Hector 
W.  Cowan  was  invited  to  take  charge,'*  and  remained 
until  March  1,  1894.  Rev.  Ernest  W.  Symonds,  a  recent 
graduate  of  Omaha  Theological  Seminary,  accepted  a 
call  and  was  installed  May  3,  1894,  as  the  first  pastor, 
remaining  till  January  1,  1903.  He  was  immediately 
followed  by  Rev.  Henry  A.  Sawyers,  the  present  pastor. 

Very  largely  through  Mr.  Cowan's  influence  and 
efforts,  a,  brick  church  costing  $2,250  was  erected  in 
August,  1892.  The  first  building  now  serves  as  a 
chapel  for  the  brick  structure. 

The  complete  roll  of  elders  is  W.  K.  Adams,  I.  P. 
Blinn,  Jesse  0.  McClain,  Edward  P.  Adams,  O.  P.  Tor- 
rance, E.  Donovan  Plummer  and  Christian  F.  Mever. 


The  Barbee  Memorial  Church  was  organized  May  G, 
1894,  in  the  Baptist  church  of  Excelsior  Springs,  by 
Revs.  Wm.  Frost  Bishop  and  E.  McNair  and  Elder  John 
M.  Finley,  a  committee  from  Upper  Missouri  Presby- 
tery. The  charter  members  were  Joshua  F,  Barbee, 
Mrs.  M.  M.  Barbee,  Miss  ]\Iary  A.  Barbee,  Mrs  Fratie 
Bates,  Mrs.  Mary  Jane  Crockett,  Fred  H.  Dice,  J.  L. 
Dice,  Mrs.  M.  L.  Dice,  E.  L.  Dimmitt,  Mrs.  Luella  Ever- 
sole,  Mrs.  Cordie  Ford,  Mrs.  Jennie  Gordon,  George  Mc 
Caslin,  Misses  Agnes  and  Helen  jMcGeorge,  Mrs.  Jane 
McGeorge,  Mrs.  Belle  Mc]\Iullen,  Mrs.   Clara,  Newle^, 


126  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Miss   Louise   Pitney,    Mrs.    Laui'a    Shelton    and    Mrs. 
Emma  Sparks. 

The  pastors  have  been  Jlevs.  Joshua  Barbee,  Ros.s 
M.  Neel,  Robert  L.  Kinnaird,  Donald  S.  West  and 
Frank  A.  Bradshaw;  the  elders,  Edward  L.  Dimmitt,. 
Anthony  Haynes,  John  M.  Finlev,  A.  M.  Griffith,  Wm. 
T.  Hufft,  Jos.  M.  McKibben,  James  C.  Shelton,  Chas.  C. 
Sherwood  and  S.  B.  Cole. 

The  church  held  its  meetings  in  Prof.  Haynes' 
Academy  building  until  the  church  building  was  fin- 
ished, April  1,  1902.  It  was  dedicated  April  18,  1902 
by  Dr.  Dobyn. 

For  the  above  we  are  indebted  to  Prof.  Anthony 
Haynes,  Clerk  of  Session,  who  has  been  the  main  pillar 
of  the  church,  financially  and  otherwise. 


The  Gaynor  City  Church  was  organized  December 
8,  1894,  by  Rev.  John  Wilson  with  the  following  mem- 
bers: Mrs.  Clara  Barks,  George  Barks,  Mrs.  Mary 
Barks,  James  and  M.  Burgher,  Mrs.  Jane  P.  Dinsmore, 
Mrs.  E.  Donaldson,  Charlotte  S..  David,  Elizabeth  J. 
and  Esther  C.  Hepburn,  Mrs.  Isabell  Hepburn,  James 
L.  and  M.  J.  Hepburn,  Jennette,  John,  John  G.,  Mar- 
gurite  A.,  Richard  and  Thomas  H.  Hepburn,  Mrs. 
Louise  Hicks,  Mrs.  Eliza  Higgins,  Mrs.  Hattie  Lindsay, 
Mrs.  E.  Nigh,  Mrs.  Melissa  Shirley,  Thos.  Shirley  and 
Mrs.  Electa  Smith.  J.  Burgher  and  J.  L.  Hepburn  w^ere 
elected  elders.  In  1895,  a  neat  frame  church  was  erect- 
ed, costing  about  $1550,  all  of  which  was  raised  on  the 
ground.  Deaths  and  removals  reduced  the  roll  of 
members  from  sixty  to  six  in  a  dozen  years,  and  the 
church  was  disbanded  in  1907-8.  It  was  an  offshoot 
of  the  Hopkins  Church,  to  which  its  remnant  returned. 
The  history  of  this  church  illustrates  that  of  many 
feeble  or  extinct  country  churches.  Depleted  by  the 
scattering  of  their  vigorous  young  to  their  life  work, 
and  the  death  or  removal  to  town  of  others,  they  be- 
come weak  or  die  through  sriving  their  life  blood  to  the 
church  at  large.     Elder  Hepburn  has  contributed  one 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  127 

son  as  a  minister,  and  several  highly  educated  daugh- 
ters are  Christian  workers. 


The  Chula  Church  was  organized  in  1895  by  Revs. 
J.  H.  Tharp,  J.  M.  Ragan  and  others.  So  wrote  Miss 
Nellie  Lilly,  Clerk  of  Session,  in  July  1908,  but  in  the 
absence  of  the  Records,  she  gave  nothing  more.  The 
recent  elders  are  D.  F.  Shiflett,  J.  N.  Ballinger  and  M. 
H.  Smith.  The  church  is  evidently  alive  as  it  has  a 
weekly  prayer  meeting.  Its  property  was  valued  at 
$1600  in  1905. 


The  Morton-Hardin  Church  Avas  organized  in  April 
(or  May),  1895,  at  Hardin,  by  Revs.  Joshua  Barbee 
and  J.  S.  Van  Meter.  Mr.  Barbee  was  pastor  five 
years  till  his  death.  Rev.  Ross  M.  Neel  preached  a  few 
times,  then  Revs.  Robert  L.  Brown,  J.  W.  McClure  and 
Guy  B.  Duff.  The  present  elders  are  W.  C.  Kirk- 
patrick,  Thomas  Kirkpatrick,  J.  B.  HaiTison,  James 
Prather  and  John  J.  Stephenson.  One  of  the  first 
elders  of  the  church  was  H.  S.  Trigg  of  Hardin. 

Elder  J.  J.  Stevenson,  Clerk  of  Session,  furnished 
the  above  in  August,  1907.  The  temporary  absence  of 
the  Records  caused  the  uncertainty  as  to  the  date  of 
the  organization,  and  prevented  the  giving  of  fuller 
information. 


The  Maitland  Church  was  organized  July  7,  1895 
by  Revs.  John  Wilson  and  H.  A.  Sawyers  and  Elder  W. 
M.  Hamsher,  with  the  following  members:  Ralph 
Crider,  Rosetta  Crider,  John  U.  Crozen,  Blanche  De 
Bard,  Maggie  W.  Dills,  Mollie  Frank,  Orville  Graves, 
Wilda  Graves,  Emma  Kenyon,  D.  Ward  King,  Mary  B. 
King,  Ijettie  Reed  King,  David  McHugh,  Elzira  Mc 
Hugh,  John  L,  Ogle,  Lottie  Powell,  Lizzie  Robison, 
Mary  Robison,  S.  D.  Robison,  Ella  Rogers,  J.  P.  Rogers, 
Rose  Rogers,  Elizabeth  Shields,  William  Shields. 
Messrs.  Crozen,  Graves  and  Ogle  were  chosen  elders. 
With  the  preceding,  the  elders  are  Wm.  Shields,  D.  Me 


us  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Hugh,  R.  Crider,  F.  P.  Gates,  J.  M.  Kenyon,  H.  K. 
Noel,  Samuel  Weaver  and  Chas.  Graves.  The  church 
has  jjeen  supplied  b}^  C.  P.  Blayney,  W.  E.  Caldwell, 
H.  P.  Alexander  and  Jeremiah  Moore. 

The  church,  which  cost  about  $4,500  was  built  in 
1898.  The  manse,  purchased  for  $1,500,  stands  in  a 
half  acre  lot. 

We  are  indebted  to  Elder  H.  K.  Noel,  Clerk  of 
Session,  for  the  above. 


•  Hev.  J.  T.  ]\IcKitrick,  pastor  of  The  United  Presby- 
terian Church  of  St.  Joseph,  writes :  ' '  The  church  was 
organized  in  1899,  by  the  Board  of  Home  Missions. 
Rev.  W.  R.  Leeper  was  pastor  until  June,  1907,  and 
the  undersigned  since  September,  1907.  The  elders 
have  been  F.  D.  McKinley,  E.  M.  Wallace,  D.  E.  Law- 
head,  D.  R.  Forgan,  Wylie  McKinley  and  J.  A.  CraAv- 
ford.  The  present  church  building  cost  $7,000  and  the 
lot  on  which  it  stands  cost  $5,000. 


The  following  is  condensed  from  a  fuller  sketch 
kindly  furnished  by  Elder  J.  A.  Speer,  Clerk  of  Session 
of  the  Burlington  Junction  United  Presbyterian 
Church.  V 

Work  was  begun  at  this  place  September  24,  1899, 
by  Rev.  J.  W.  Johnson,  and  continued  by  members  of 
College  Springs  Presbytery  who  volunteered  their  ser- 
vices. On  Thursday  evening,  February  22,  1900,  Rev. 
S.  S.  Martin  of  College  Springs,  Iowa,  and  Elders  W.  P. 
]\Iorrison  of  College  Springs  and  J.  K.  Herron  of  Coin, 
Iowa,  the  committee  of  Presbytery,  having  held  ser- 
vices for  five  days,  "proceeded  to  the  organization 
known  as  the  First  United  Presbyterian  Congregation, 
Burlington  Junction,  Mo.  The  charter  members  were 
James  i\I.  Affleck,  Mrs.  Nannie  Affleck,  Howard  and 
Jessie  Affleck,  J.  L.  Duff,  Mrs.  Emma  Duff,  John  A. 
Duff,  T.  E.  Fordyce,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Hamilton  and  Mrs. 
Geo.  Thompson,  by  letter;  and  Anna  M.  Duff  and  Effie 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  129 

Thompson,  on  profession.  J.  L.  Duff  and  T.  E.  Fordyce 
were  elected  elders,  and  J.  M.  Affleck,  J.  L.  Duff  and 
Mrs.  Hamilton,  trustees. 

February  23,  1902,  a  church  building  costing  $4,350, 
was  dedicated,  free  of  debt,  the  sermon  being  by  Rev. 
R.  B.  A.  McBride  of  Tarkio. 

The  church  has  been  supplied  by  Revs.  J.  P.  Gibson, 
i).  P.  Smith,  J.  E.  Barr,  W.  H.  Anderson,  E.  J.  Griffith 
and  Joseph  Calhoun,  D.  D. ;  and  served  by  Elders  J.  L. 
Duff,  T.  E.  Fordyce,  J.  M.  Affleck,  J.  A.  Speer,  S.  C. 
Taylor  and  J.  R.  George.  Up  to  September,  1908, 
sixtv-eiofht  members  had  been  received." 


The  work  in  South  St.  Joseph  which  resulted  in  the 
organization  of  Faith  Church  was  begun  in  June,  1899, 
by  Elders  J.  0.  McClain  and  0.  P.  Torrance  of  Hope 
Church,  at  the  solicitation  of  Mrs.  E.  E.  Brown  and  Mr. 
Albert  N.  Sprague.  The  iirst  meetings  were  held  in 
Hagan  Hall  with  an  attendance  of  only  eight,  but 
patience  and  faith  triumphed.  In  November,  1899, 
they  began  a  neat  frame  church  costing  nearly  $1700, 
which  was  completed  in  March,  1900.  The  deep  inter- 
est felt  in  the  enterprise  by  all  the  kindred  churches  of 
St.  Joseph  is  shown  by  the  participation  in  the  organi- 
zation of  the  church,  September  2,  1900,  of  Revs.  E.  B. 
Sherwood,  T.  D.  Roberts  and  E.  W.  Svmonds,  and 
Elders  W.  M.  Sherwood,  F.  J.  Behne  and  W.  J.  San- 
ders of  Westminster;  A.  A.  Elliott  and  C.  M.  Miller 
of  Third  Street,  and  W.  K.  Adams  and  0.  P.  Torrance 
of  Hope. 

The  charter  members  were  Mrs.  E.  E.  Brown,  Hor- 
ace L.  Ewing,  Cora  S.  Ewing,  Chas.  W.  Hengston, 
Albert  N.  Sprague,  Mrs.  Laura  Sprague,  W.  L.  Upton, 
Mrs.  R.  B.  West,  J.  B.  Wright,  M.  D.,  Mrs.  J.  B. 
Wright,  J.  W.  Wright  and  Mrs.  J.  W.  Wright.  The 
first  elders  were  W.  L.  Upton  and  J.  W.  Wright,  and 
they  have  been  followed  by  O.  Burnett,  G.  H.  Moffett, 
Henry  Dishner,  W.  E.  Blanchard,  Walter  H.  Penning- 
ton, Wm.  Dishner,  Chas.  McKaj^  and  Samuel  Johnston. 
—9 


130  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

The  church  has  been  serv^ed  by  Revs.  R.  Bruce  West, 
H.  A.  Brown,  David  C.  Davies  and  D.  Augustus  Shetler. 

In  1901  a  manse  costing  $900  was  provided.  The 
church  is  doing  a  good  work,  its  specialty  being  the 
Sabbath  school.  Most  of  the  above  was  furnished  by 
Elder  0.  Burnett,  Clerk  of  Session. 


In  the  spring  of  1901,  three  young  men  from  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  St.  Joseph  started  a  little 
Sabbath  school  in  the  King  Hill  school  house.  South 
St.  Joseph.  Elder  T.  B.  Campbell  took  a  special  in- 
terest in  the  work,  and  Rev.  I.  F.  Swallow,  who  had 
just  graduated  from  Louisville  Seminary,  began  work 
there  the  first  Sabbath  of  June.  By  his  untiring  zeaJ 
and  perseverance  the  work  grew,  and  by  the  prompt 
liberality  of  friends  in  the  First  Church,  the  foundation 
for  the  church  building  was  laid  September  17,  1901. 
The  building  wasi  formally  opened  for  services,  Novem- 
ber 17,  1901,  and  the  church  was  organized  January  17, 
1902,  with  the  following  members;  Miss  Charlotte 
Anderson,  J.  P.  Anthony  and  wife,  F.  C.  Brown  and 
wife,  C  S.  Brown  and  wife,  James  Clemenson,  Mrs. 
Augusta  Conners  and  her  two  daughters,  Albert  D. 
Conway  and  wife,  E.  A.  Crain,  Mrs.  Edds  and  her  two 
daughters,  Wm.  E.  Ervin,  Chas.  A.  Hoffman  and  wife 
Mrs.  Bessie  Jones,  Mrs.  Grace  McKelvey,  George  A. 
Mosier  and  wife,  C.  C.  Miller,  wife  and  daughter.  Miss 
Luella  Norris,  Mrs.  D.  A.  Pope,  Mrs.  Belle  Rasmus,  Mrs. 
Vina  Stout  and  Miss  Mary  Waugh.  Messrs.  Hoffman 
and  Mosier  were  elected  elders;  and  J.  Clemenson, 
deacon. 

Rev.  I.  F.  Swallow  was  elected  pasitor,  and  after 
three  years  of  untiring  and  successful  work,  he  accept- 
ed a  call  to  Augusta,  Ky.  After  going  without  a  per- 
manent  pastor  for  over  a  year,  our  friends  succeeded  i.a 
getting  for  usi  Rev.  B.  B.  Sutcliffe,  who  is  doing  excel- 
lent work.  jWilliam  E.  Ervin  and  E.  W.  Sandusky 
have  been  added  to  our  bench  of  elders,  and  J.  J.  Hen- 
dra,  W.  Barton,  Wm.  Kirschner  and  Geo.  Anthony,  to 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  131 

the  board  of  deacons.  The  church,  which  is  situated 
on  the  corner  of  Hyde  Park  Avenue  and  Fifth  Street, 
and  the  manse  were  built  for  about  $10,000.  Wm. 
Kirschner  is  Superintendent  of  the  flourishing  Sabbath 
school. 

The   above  was   condensed   from   a  fuller  account 
furnished  ,by  Elder  Wm.  E.  Ervin,  Clerk  of  Session. 


The  Brookdale  Church,  like  so  many  others,  had  its 
beginning  in  a  Sabbath  school.  This  Sabbath  school 
''was  established  in  the  spring  of  1903,  in  a  public 
school  building  on  Edmond  St.,  and  was  maintained  as 
a  mission  school  of  the  First  Cumberland  Presbyterian 
Church  of  St.  Joseph,  until  the  fall  of  1903.  In  Novem- 
ber the  Presbytery  of  Platte  (C.  P.),  assumed  control 
and  placed  the  Rev.  W.  S.  Harold  in  charge.  He  was 
ordered  to  make  a  canvas  of  the  Presbytery  for  funds 
with  which  to  erect  a  building.  His  labor  was  so  suc- 
cessful that  on  June  19,  1904  the  Siuiday  school  was 
changed  from  the  school  building  to  the  new  building 
which  was  dedicated,  free  of  debt,  on  July  3,  1904. 
The  church  is  located  on  Sylvanie  Street  in  what  is 
known  as  the  Brookdale  Addition,  and  is  valued  at 
$1500,  beside  the  lot  which  cost  $500. 

"On  January  1,  1905,  the  organization  of  the  con- 
gregation was  consummated  by  ;Rev.  W.  S.  Harold. 
The  list  of  charter  members  is  as  follows:  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  A.  Ainscombe,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chas.  E.  Clonkey, 
Homer  and  Waldo  Clonkey,  C.  E.  Dobson,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Alex.  Dumbreck,  Misses  Catherine  and  Celia  Dum- 
breck,  Mrs.  W.  S.  Harold,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Hagerty,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  D.  Munger,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  H.  Pumphrey,  Miss 
Nellie  Pumphrey,  W.  P.  Sampson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  H. 
Story,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  .W.  T.  Wise.  Messrs.  Clonkey, 
Sampson  and  Story  were  elected  elders;  and  Munger 
and  Wise,  deacons. 

"Rev.  W.  S.  Harold  served  the  congregation  until 
June,  1905,  when  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  pastorate 


1S2  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

of  the  church  at  Memphis,  Mo.  The  church  was  with- 
out regular  services,  except  a  Sunday  night  service 
conducted  by  a  Y.  M.  C.  A.  worker,  till  in  the  spring 
of  1906.  Then  the  Chuch  Extension  Committee  of 
the  Synod  of  Missouri  secured  the  services  of  Rev.  Wm. 
A.  McCammon,  who  took  charge  of  the  work,  June  1, 
1906." 

The  ahove  was  furnished  by  Mr.  McCammon  in 
June,  1907.  He  went  to  Arizona  in  1908,  and  the 
church  is  now  in  charge  of  Rev.  Duncan  Brown.  Mr. 
Llewellvn  White  has  been  added  to  the  Session. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  133 


Extinct  and  Non-reporting  Churches. 

In  this  section  are  found  only  the  extinct  churches 
not  already  noticed  and  the  non-reporting  churches, 
excepting'  Mt.  Bethel,  because  of  its  relation  to  Bee 
Creek ;  Bethlehem  and  Pratherville  because  of  the  date 
of  their  organization  is  not  definitely  known;  and  the 
Pleasant  View,  First  Cumberland  of  St.  Joseph  and 
York,  because  their  sketches  were  not  obtained  in  time 
to  be  inserted  in  their  proper  place  chronologically. 
Where  the  known  facts  are  few,  as  is  often  the  case, 
they  are  all  given. 

That  there  ,are  s;o  many  extinct  churches  is  no  cause 
for  surprise  or  severe  criticism.  In  a  new  country 
where  people  charfge  residence  so  freely  and  nothing 
is  yet  crystallized  or  settled,  the  most  flattering  pros- 
pects of  ,any  locality  may  utterly  fail,  so  that  enter- 
prise and  activity  in  building  up  the  Master's  kingdom, 
necessarily  involves  siome  apparent  waste.  Still  some 
of  these  extinct  churches  have  raised  up  a  minister  of 
the  gospel — a  thing  that  many  of  our  larger  churches 
have  never  done.  A  denominational  zeal  which  some- 
times sought  to  build  up  one  branch  of  the  church 
militant  at  the  expense  of  another  and  which  was  more 
tolerated  in  the  early  times  than  now,  was  responsible 
for  much  of  the  real  waste. 


The  date  of  the  organization  of  the  Bethlehem — 
often  called  Walnut  Grove — Church,  has  not  been 
learned.  Mrs.  Mary  Calhoun  Baker  of  Denver  wrote 
in  November,  1906  :  "Bethlehem  Church  was  organized 
in  the  early  fifties.  From  1854  until  their  death, 
Edward  Pickett  and  Andrew  Robertson  were  elders. 
My  father,  Alexander  J.  Calhoun,  was  ruling  elder  and 
clerk.  He  died  November  22,  1904  at  the  age  of 
ninety  years  and  twelve  days.  Rev.  Daniel  Patton  was 
one  of  the  early  pastors  of  the  church,  if  not  the  first." 
Mrs.  Calhoun  sent  an  editorial  obituary  of  her  husband 


134  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

^;hich  will  be  found,  in  condensed  form,  among  the 
"Early  Pioneers."  The  Records  were  left  in  the  hands 
of  the  deacons,  Messrs.  R.  L.  Harbauorh  and  Wm. 
Sevier,  from  whom  no  response  to  inquiries  made  has 
been  received. 

In  1905,  fifteen  members  were  reported,  and  church 
property  (four  miles  north  of  Liberty)  valued  at  $1000. 
The  last  reported  membership  of  the  church  was  ,only 
five,  but  it  to  be  hoped  that  it  jwill  be  maintained,  if 
only  as  an  out-station.  Many  such  are  needed  to  pre- 
vent many  of  our  country  districts  from  lapsing  into 
practical  heathenism. 


We  are  indebted  to  Elder  E.  R.  Melton,  iClerk  of 
Session  of  the  Pleasant  View  Church,  for  the  following 
highly  valued  information.  The  old  church  Record  has 
been  lost. 

"In  1874,  Rev.  L.  F.  Hayes  organized  what  was 
known  as  the  New  Liberty  C.  P.  Church  ,at  the  New 
Liberty  school  house,  four  and  a  half  miles  east  and 
one  mile  north  from  Craig.  The  congregation  used  the 
school  house  till  the  New  Liberty  Baptist  church  was 
built  right  near  it,  both  congregations  using  that  for 
several  years.  Then  the  Presbj^terians  held  their  ser- 
vices in  the  Lonesome  school  house,  one  half  mile  south 
and  one  mile  west  of  where  the  present  church  stands. 
This  was  built  in  1889,  at  a  cost  lOf  $1600,  and  is  located 
three  and  a  half  miles  north  and  four  miles  east  of 
Craig. 

"The  charter  members  were  Mason  F.  Dawsion, 
Mary  Dearmont,  Thomas  Dearmont,  Clark  Eppler,  Har- 
vey Finney,  Andrew  Judy,  Eliz.  Judy,  Chris.  Neider- 
houser,  Mrs.  ]\Iary  Neiderhouser,  Thos.  Simpson,  Wm. 
Skelly  and  wife,  Henry  Walker,  Miss  Mary  Walker 
and  D.  A.  Young.  The  following  is  a  list  of  ministers : 
L.  F.  Haves,  J.  Harvey  Norman,  Chas.  B.  Powers,  F.  G. 
Prall,  0.'  D.  Allen,  W.  F.  Perry,  H.  R.  Norris,  W.  C. 
Carter,  John  A.  Murphy,  D.  M.  Boyer,  R.  B.  West  and 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  135 

John  Duncan.  The  list  of  ruling  elders  is  Chris.  Neider- 
houser,  And.  Judy,  D.  A.  Yoiuig,  J.  R.  Nauman,  John 
Strough,  H.  Finney,  E.  R.  Melton,  W.  E.  Johnston, 
A.  T.  Rowland,  Peter  S.  Nauman,  J.  H.  Neely,  S.  D. 
Painter  and  B.  F.  Judy." 


Elder  D.  B.  Jesse,  Clerk  of  Session  of  the  Prather- 
ville  Church,  furnished  the  following  very  satisfactory 
sketch.    He  wrote  in  December,  1908 : 

''The  earliest  records  of  our  church  were  destroyed 
by  fire  in  1898.  The  Pratherville  C.  P.  Church  was 
organized  at  Missouri  City  by  Rev.  L.  J.  A.  Prather,  hi 
either  the  year  1866  or  1867,  and  was  known  as  the 
Missouri  City  congregation.  The  first  elders  we  have 
any  record  of  were  Robert  Gilmore,  James  Allcorn  and 
Jefferson  Robertson.  For  several  years  — until  1873 — 
the  congregation  worshipped  at  Missouri  City  in  con- 
nection with  the  Methodist  Church,  lafter  which  a 
church  was  erected  at  Pratherville  under  the  efficient 
leadership  of  Rev.  J.  A.  Prather.  After  the  building 
was  erected,  chiefly  at  the  expense  of  Mr.  Prather,  the 
Fishing  River  Baptist  Church  paid  one  half  the  ex- 
pense of  erection  and  worshipped  in  it  till  they  moved 
to  Mosby  in  1891.  The  Presbyterians  continued  to  wor- 
ship in  the  old  church  till  the  dedication  of  the  new 
one,  which  was  built  with  the  aid  of  the  Christian  Union 
Church,  the  latter  paying  one  third  of  the  expense 
on  condition  that  they  be  ,allowed  use  of  the  building 
one  Sabbath  in  each  month.  The  church  was  com- 
pleted at  a  total  cost  of  $1400,  and  was  dedicated 
May  29,  1898. 

"The  elders  in  1873  were  Wm.  Wilkerson,  Perry 
Cameron,  F.  M.  Carroll  and  A.  J.  Martin.  The  present 
elders  are  J.  E.  Ferril,  F.  M.  Carroll,  F.  J.  Vaughn 
and  D.  B.  Jesse.  The  pastors  since  the  church  was 
organized,  as  nearly  as  we  can  give  them  in  their  order, 
are  as  follows:  L.  J.  A.  Prather,  John  Prather, 
Lafayette  Munkirs,  0.  D.  Allen,  Geo.  W.  Hawley, 
L.  F.  Hayes,  H.  R.  Norris,  H.  W.  Fisher,  Y.  W.  Whit- 


136  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

sett,  Arthur  L.  O'Dell,  R.  H.  Craig,  J.  H.  Tharp  and 
James  Froman. 

"For  several  years  there  were  only  a  few  who  kept 
the  church  alive,  and  these  faithful  few  were  Mrs. 
Mary  P.  Vaughn  and  her  daughter,  Mrs.  John  M. 
Hart,  ]\Irs.  Thos.  Smith,  Mrs.  L.  C.  Pettus  (till  recently 
Clerk  of  Session),  F.  M.  Carroll,  his  wife  and  daughter 
Emma  and  Mrs,  Wm.  Wilkerson;  a  few  years  later, 
H.  R.  Norris  and  wife.  In  1894  Rev.  C.  E.  Hayes  con- 
ducted a  revival  in  which  the  church  was  greatly 
strengthened,  heads  of  families  being  converted  and 
coming  into  the  church.  Among  these  were  Messrs. 
Thos.  Smith  audi  J.  N.  Hart,  husbands  of  two'  of  the 
women  who  had  labored  so  untiringly,  and  Mr.  F.  J. 
Vaughn,  son  of  Mary  P.  Vaughn,  an  aged  and  loyal 
member.  Mr.  Vaughn  has  been  Superintendent  of  the 
Sabbath  school  ever  since  then." 


Elder  Luke  H.  Moss,  Superintendent  of  the  Sab- 
bath school  of  the  first  Cumberland  Church  of  St. 
Joseph  for  twenty  years,  has  kindly  furnished  the  fol- 
lowing data:  "The  original  church  was  built  in  1882, 
Rev.  F.  M.  Miller  being  considered  the  moving  spirit 
in  the  enterprise.  Associated  with  him  were  such  men 
as  Ed.  M.  Davidson,  T.  B.  Gordon,  Wiley  H.  Chapman, 
et  al.  Among  the  first  elders  were  E.  M.  Davidson  and 
J.  W.  White.  Dr.  J.  W.  Burton  Farr,  Revs.  S.  A.  Sad- 
ler, Alonzo  Pearson,  J.  H.  Norman,  J.  H.  Doran,  D.  E, 
Bushnell,  D.  D.,  M.  B.  Irvine,  G.  A.  Blair,  P.  M.  Simms 
and  Arthur  W.  Henderson  have  been  pastors ;  the  latter 
is  now.  We  have  maintained  a  Sunday  school  from  the 
start  which  has  always  taken  a  leading  part  in  the 
church  work  of  this  city  and  Platte  Presbytery.  The 
old  church  house  was  razed  in  1903,  during  the  pastor- 
ate of  G.  A.  Blair  and  a  new  one  built  on  the  same  site, 
containing  seven  class  rooms  and  a  primary  class 
room,  all  facing  and  opening  into  the  auditorium  so 
that  we  can  seat  a  thousand  persons.  This  church, 
Sixteenth  and  Edmond  Streets,  cost  $5000.     T.  P.  Gor- 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  137 

don,  J.  A.  Whiteford,  Bruce  Mitchelhill,  W.  D.  Boyer 
and  myself  compose  the  present  eldership." 


Rev.  R.  H.  Barnes,  D.  D.,  the  pastor  writes:  The 
United  Presbyterian  Con^reg*ation  of  York  wasi  organ- 
ized in  the  snmmer  of  1878,  by  Rev.  Marion  Morrison, 
under  the  name  of  Greenville,  and  was  under  the  care 
of  the  United  Presbyterian  Presbytery  of  Nebraska. 
The  first  members  were  Joseph  and  Ellen  Ely,  Samuel 
Haiferty,  Solomon  and  Susan  McCully,  W.  b.  Miller, 
James  and  Ellen  Rankin,  Misses  Laura  and  Lou  Ran- 
kin and  Wm.  P.  and  Eliz.  J.  Smith.  Solomon  McCully 
and  Joseph  Ely  were  elected  elders.  The  name  of  the 
congregation  was  changed  to  York,  to  correspond  with 
the  name  of  the  post  office  where  the  members  received 
their  mail,  in  1881,  when  the  Rev.  R.  H.  Barnes  came 
to  the  congregation  as  its  pastor. 


In  the  Cumberland  General  Assembly  Minutes  for 
1905,  the  Agency  Church  was  reported  as  having  a 
house  of  worship  and  a  manse  valued  at  $2,000,  eighty 
resident  members,  and  sixty-seven  in  attendance  on 
Sabbath  school.  From  other  sources  we  learn  that  the 
recent  pastors  have  been  A.  W.  Green  and  D.  M.  Boyer, 
and  the  present  elders  are  James  A.  Smiley,  Thos. 
Brinton  and  Jos.  Smiley.  The  Sabbath  school  is 
vigorous. 


Alpha  Church,  Grundy  coimty,  is  foundj  in  the 
Minutes  of  the  Synod  of  Missouri  for  1907  and  1908, 
but  not  in  the  Cumberland  Minutes  for  1905  and  1906. 
Probablv  it  became  extinct  before  1905. 


The  only  mention  of  the  Antioch  Church  found  is 
that  it  was  dropped  from  the  roll  of  Upper  Missouri 
Presbytery,  April  3,  1869.    Its  location  is  not  known. 


Sometime  in  1868  a  church  was  organized  at  Salem 


138  HISTORY  OF  TLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

by  Eev.  J.  N.  Young  (its  first  pastor)  with  eleven  mem- 
bers, and  it  was  received  by  Upper  Missouri  Presby- 
tery, October  3,  1868,  Elder  Arthur  Andrews  represent- 
ing it.  "In  1870  it  was  removed  two  miles  east  to 
Barnard,  the  name  being  changed  accordingly,  and  re- 
organized by  Rev.  E.  B.  Sherwood  with  Mrs.  C.  C. 
Baker,  James  Griffin  and  wife,  Wm.  Griffin,  C.  House 
and  wife,  J.  C.  McCandliss  and  wife,  Mrs.  S.  IMcFar- 
land,  Samuel  Stonehocker  and  wife,  Albert  Ulman  and 
others.  It  was  served  by  E.  B.  Sherwood,  Wm.  Ilsley 
and  B.  D.  Luther.  A  church  costing  $1500  was  built." 
So  says  a  history  in  the  Kansas  City  Library. 

From  various  sources  we  learn  that  the  church  was 
also  served  hj  M.  L.  Anderson,  E.  W.  Symonds,  James 
Reed  and  J.  K.  Sawyers;  and  that  its  roll  of  elders 
includes  J.  C.  McCandliss,  Henry  Dorst,  James  Griffin, 
Geo.  S.  Graves,  J.  C.  Robinson,  J.  E.  Akey  and  Henry 
Stalling.  "The  Barnard  Church  was  disbanded  and 
the  building  sold  in  1907."  The  place  is  small  and 
was  greatly  overchurched. 


The  data  for  this  fragmentary  sketch  of  the  Bee 
Creek  Church,  including  its  branches  and  successors. 
Fancy  Bottom,  la  tan,  ]\It.  Pisgah  and  Mt.  Bethel 
churches,  were  obtained  from  Rev.  0.  D.  Allen,  Mrs. 
M.  A.  Collier,  Mrs.  Mary  Bigham  Collier  and  L.  R.  Pal- 
mer, Clerk  of  Session,  and  especially  from  Elder  Isaac 
W.  Carson  (son  of  Elder  John  H.' Carson),  Clerk  of 
Session  of  the  latan  and  :\It.  Bethel  churches  from 
1874  to  1900,  and  the  venerable  Mrs.  Minerva  Moore 
(sister  of  Elder  Sidney  C.  Risk,  of  Kentucky  stock). 
The  dates  of  the  latter,  who  had  access  to  the  Records 
of  the  Mt.  Bethel  Church,  are  the  ones  here  given. 

The  Bee  Creek  Church  was  organized  at  the  Miller 
school  house  (which  is  believed  to  have  been  six  or 
seven  miles  north-east  of  latan)  by  Rev.  Henry  Renick. 
Very  little  is  positively  known  of  its  early  history  ex- 
cept that  Elder  John  Bigham  represented  it  at  the  or- 
ganization of  the   Platte   Presbytery,   in   1845.      (See 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  139 

page  4.)  After  worshiping  in  school  houses  for  some 
years,  its  first  building  was  a  log  church  in  the  vicinity 
of  the  old  cemetery  on  the  place  now  owned  by  L.  D. 
]\IcColleY,  about  five  miles  north  of  Weston.  Later 
they  erected  a  frame  building  one  mile  south  of  the  loj; 
church.  When  the  name  of  the  church  was  changed 
to  Mt.  Pisgah  is  unknown,  but  it  probably  was  when 
the  church  was  built,  the  present  name  of  the  neighbor- 
hood being  Pisgah.  This  building  was  sold  in  18'82  or 
1883  after  the  Mt.  Pisgah  and  latan  churches  united 
to  form  the  Mt.  Bethel  Church.  Sidney  C.  Risk  was  an 
elder  in  the  former  church  at  that  time. 

Mrs.  Moore  wrote  in  November,  1908:  "The  Fancy 
Bottom  congregation  was  set  off  from  the  Bee  Creek 
congregation  by  an  act  of  Platte  Presbytery,  and  was 
organized  at  the  Fancy  Bottom  school  house  by  Rev. 
H.  R.  Smith,  in  the  fall  of  1851,  by  the  election  of 
Col.  James  A.  Smith,  Geo.  W.  Dyer  and  Wm.  Staggs 
as  ruling  elders.  (Another  authority  gives  Phillip 
Staggs  as  one  of  the  first  elders.)  Philip  Siler  was 
elected  elder  in  1859.  The  name  of  the  congregation 
was  changed  from  Fancv  Bottom  to  latan  bv  Presby- 
tery in  the  fall  of  1859." 

Mr.  Carson  says:  "The  church  house  at  latan  was 
built  under  the  ministry  of  C.  B.  Hodges.  This  being 
wrecked  by  a  storm  some  time  in  the  eighties  (prob- 
ably June  16,  1882),  the  congregation  of  latan,  join- 
ing in  with  the  remnant  of  the  Mt.  Pisgah  congre- 
gation, built  the  present  Mt.  Bethel  church"  (which  is 
situated  three  miles  east  by  north  from  latan  and 
about  seven  miles  north  by  west  of  Weston.  A  well- 
cared-for  cemetery  is  by  it.)  "The  church  was  dedi- 
cated May  4,  1883.  Richard  Pemberton,  S.  Robinson, 
Elias  Siler  and  I.  W.  Carson  were  elected  elders  at 
latan,  and  H.  R.  Smith,  Benj.  McCreary,  C.  B.  Hodges 
and  G.  L.  Moad  preached  there." 

Mrs.  Moore  says  the  record  of  the  first  meeting  of 
Session  of  the  Mt.  Bethel  Church  gives  F.  M.  Miller 
as  Moderator  and  S.  C.  Risk,  G.  W.  Dyer  and  I.  W. 


140  HISTORY  OF  FLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Carson  as  elders.  C.  B.  Powers  was  Moderator  in  1887 ; 
S.  H.  Murray,  in  1890;  L.  F.  Hayes,  in  1892,  and  W.  O. 
H.  Perry,  in  1899.  Other  pastors  are  O.  D.  Allen,  J.  H. 
Norman,  R.  D.  Miller,  Allen  Guthrie  and  S.  T.  Divinia. 
A  probably  incomplete  list  of  later  elders  is  P.  Linville^ 
Albert  S.  Glummer,  A.  B.  Foley,  M.  C.  Ferril,  S.  P. 
Rose  and  Isaac  McCrea :  of  deacons ;  C.  M.  Siler,  R.  Til- 
ton,  John  W.  Carson,  James  M.  Hord  and  Leonard  R. 
Palmer.  The  church  has  been  recently  revived  and 
greatly  strengthened. 


In  the  Presbytery  of  Chillicothe  in  the  ^linutes  of 
the  Synod  of  Missouri  for  1906,  appears  the  following: 
Bethel  Church,  near  Oak  Hill,  has  a  frame  church  and 
its  elders  are  Wm.  Benner  and  J.  P.  Briscoe. 


In  1905  the  Birming  Church  reported  fifteen  mem- 
gers  and  church  property  (situated  fourteen  miles 
south  of  St.  Joseph)  valued  at  $800.  W.  R.  Dallam 
was  Clerk  of  Session. 


The  Blythedale  Church  was  organized  May  6,  1882, 
by  Rev.  E.  B.  Sherwood  and  Elders  A.  M.  Morgan  and 
James  Scott,  with  eight  members,  J,  H.  Myles  being 
elected  elder.  A  church  costing  $1600  was  promptly 
erected.  Deaths  and  the  removal  of  the  leading  family 
caused  its  disbandment  April  2,  1885.  Rev.  James  A. 
McKay  writes:  ''The  church  at  Blythedale  was  or- 
ganized with  but  one  Presbyterian  family  there  at  the 
time.  After  this  family  moved  away  the  church  was 
sold  to  the  Baptists,"  in  1886. 


"Rev.  J.  W.  Pinkerton  as  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee to  organize  a  church  in  Carroll  county,  reported 
(to  Upper  Missouri  Presbytery,  September  5,  1867) 
that  on  Sabbath,  June  16,  he  had  organized  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Carroll  county,  with  R.  M. 
McLaurv  and  Samuel  Graham,  ruling  elders."    In  1869 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTE'RY.  141 

this  church  reported  twenty-five  members  and  $1165 
raised  for  congregational  purposes ;  and  in  1870,  thirty- 
six  members.  In  October,  1869  it  was  represented  at 
Presbytery  by  Elder  J.  O.  Adams.  Its  name  was 
changed  to  Ebenezer  April  5,  1871.  The  Ebenezer 
Church  had  a  house  of  worship,  and  was  served  by 
Eev.  J.  D.  Beard.    It  was  disbanded  in  April,  1878. 


There  was  an  Old  School  church  in  Chillicothe 
which  reported  twelve  members  in  1859,  and  thirty- 
eight  in  1869.  It  was  vacant  both  times.  It  was  dis- 
solved and  stricken  from  the  roll  by  Upper  Missouri 
Presbytery,  April  4,  1870. 


Clear  Fork  Church  appears  twice  in  the  Records  of 
Upper  Missouri  Presbytery,  in  1853,  with  seventeen 
members,  Robt.  Scott  as  its  supply,  and  Ridgeley  as  its 
post  office ;  and  again  in  1869  when  it  was  dropped 
from  the  roll.  Ridgeley  Church,  with  twenty-six  mem- 
bers, Robert  Scott  as  supply  and  Ridgeley  as  its  post 
office  appears  in  the  roll  of  the  early  Platte  Presbytery 
in  1859.  Probably  the  two  churches  were  one  and  the 
same. 


The  Coloma  Church  was  organized  October  1,  1870, 
by  Rev.  J.  D.  Beard,  with  twelve  members  and  one 
eider,  and  was  dropped  from  the  roll  April  2,  1885.  Dr. 
W.  H.  Dice  says;  ''The  Coloma  church  was  organized 
partly  from  members  of  the  Ebenezer  church.  Thomas 
H.  Trussell  and  wife,  Dr.  J.  P.  Dice  and  wife  and  Mrs. 
R.  M.  McLaury  and  family  were,  I  presume,  among  tho 
charter  members."  The  elders  were  T.  H.  Trussell, 
R.  D.  Allen  and  Wm.  H.  Dice,  M.  D. ;  the  deacons,  John 
Reed  and  Geo,  Ross. 


Elderton  Church,  with  J.  N.  Young  as  supply,  and 
Gentrv-ville  as  its  post  office,  but  otherwise  only  a  blank 
report,  appears  in  1859.    It  does  not  appear  on  the  roll 


142  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    ,PRESBYTE'RY. 

of  Upper  Missouri  Presbytery  after  June,  1867. 


The  Fairview  Church,  six  miles  northeast  of  St. 
Joseph,  was  originally  known  as  High  Prairie.  In  1905 
it  reported  fifty-three  members,  and  church  property 
valued  at  $900.  0.  B.  Lawliss  was  the  pastor;  and 
H.  H.  Higgins,  Clerk  of  Session. 


A  church  was  organized  at  Farley  between  Septem- 
ber, 1860  and  April,  1861.  John  R.  Swain,  an  eminent 
Christian  and  business  man,  was  the  elder.  His  re- 
moval to  Platte  City  ended  the  church. 


In  1905  the  Faucett  Church  reported  135  members, 
with  a  Sabbath  school  of  fiftj^,  and  church  property 
valued  at  $4,000. 

The  Forest  City  Church  was  organized  betweeo 
April  and  October,  1860,  by  Rev.  Aug.  T.  Norton  of 
Alton,  111.  All  the  records  have  disappeared.  The  el- 
ders known  are  H.  K.  S.  Robinson,  Wm.  Zook,  C.  C. 
Platter  and  J.  A.  DeMuth.  Among  those  who  served  it 
were  Willis  Weaver,  J.  S.  McClung,  Geo.  Miller  and 
Geo.  A.  McKinlay.  Under  the  last,  it  saw  its  best  days, 
the  membership  reaching  thirty-four.  It  embraced 
some  strong  earnest  men  who  struggled  long  against 
most  adverse  and  discouraging  circumstances.  Its  last 
published  report  was  in  1888,  when  its  membership 
had  been  reduced  to  seven.  The  church  seems  never 
to  have  been  formally  disbanded. 

Mr.  Harry  E.  Robinson  of  Ottumwa,  Iowa,  son  of 
Elder  H.  K.  S.  Robinson,  wrote  in  July,  1907,  as  fol- 
lows. ''I  lived  in  Forest  City  till  about  three  years  ago. 
During  the  last  three  years  of  my  residence  there  we 
tried  to  reorganize  the  Presbyterian  Church,  but  could 
not  do  it.  Rev.  H.  A.  Sawyers  of  Oregon  and  others 
came  and  preached  for  us  in  the  Christian  church,  but 


HISTORY    OP    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  143 

we  finallji  gave  it  up,  and  my  wife,  her  sister  and  I 
united  Avith  the  Oregon  Church."  Mr.  Robinson  gives 
the  following  names  of  charter  or  early  members: 
Mrs.  Abel,  James  H.  Allen,  Mrs.  Geo.  W.  Baldwin, 
Misses  Ann  and  Mary  Canon,  Mrs.  Canon,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Joe  De  Muth,  Mrs.  Seth  Ferguson,  Mrs.  Vine  Hovey, 
Mrs.  Ann  Kaull,  Mrs.  Louis  Lukehardt,  Hugh  K.  S. 
and  Mary  M.  Robinsion,  Mrs.  Kitty  Wells,  Misses  Clara, 
Edith  and  Joe  Wilkinson  and  Mrs.  Emma  Williams. 


April  3,  1869,  Upper  Missouri  Presbytery  "ap- 
pointed Rev.  J.  N.  Young  and  Elder  R.  Muir  a  commit- 
tee to  organize  a  church  at  Valley  Mills,  if  the  way  be 
clear."  October  9,  1869,  "the  committee  appointed  for 
the  purpose  report  the  organization  of  a  church  with 
two  ruling  elders  and  eleven  members  at  Valley  Mills 
to  be  known  as  Glendale  Church." 

The  enrolment  of  this  church  seems  to  have  been 
neglected,  as  it  never  appears  in  any  roll  of  Presbytery, 
either  written  or  printed. 


A  church  was  organized  at  Goshen,  November  20, 
1880,  by  Revs.  E.  B.  Sherwood  and  D.  McRuer.  Among 
the  charter  members  were  Clark  Deshler  and  wife, 
Mrs.  Susan  Easter,  Thos.  M.  Harper  and  wife,  Camp- 
bell Mehaffy,  Mrs.  Jennett  Mehaffy,  Chas.  G.  Russell 
and  Wm.  Tuttle.  T.  M.  Harper  and  C.  G.  Russell  were 
the  first  elders.  The  latter  entered  th  ministry  after- 
wards. Clark  Deshler  was  an  elder  later.  The  church 
reported!  two  elders  and  sixteen  imembers  in  1882. 
"The  death  of  the  church  was  caused  by  the  death 
and  removal  of  its  few  members."  Its  last  report  to 
Presbytery  was  in  1885. 

For  most  of  the  above  we  are  indebted  to  Mrs.  Eliz. 
Lindsay,  of  Princeton  and  Mrs.  Malissa  Scott  of  Betha- 
ny, early  members  of  the  Goshen  Church. 


The  Grand  River  Church  was  organized  in  1871  by 


144  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTE-RY. 

Rev.  J.  D.  Beard,  evidently  the  outcome  of  a  revival. 
The  first  report,  in  1872,  gave  sixteen  members,  eleven 
of  whom  were  received  on  the  profession  of  their  faith, 
and  five  by  letter.  The  second  and  last  report  (in 
1873,)  gave  only  ten  members.  Its  location  is  un- 
known, but  probably  it  was  near  the  Grand  River  and 
in  Carroll  county. 


The  Grand  View  Church,  which  was  probably  in 
Grundy  county,  was  organized  September  15,  1865. 
In  1869  it  reported  thirty-one  members.  It  was  dis- 
banded by  Upper  JMissouri  Presbytery  in  April,  1877. 
In  1872  it  reported  forty-nine  members,  hence  probably 
its  speedy  disappearance  was  owing  to  its  absorption 
by  some  other  church  started  in  the  vicinity. 


"According  to  previous  agreement,  Revs.  Robert 
Cruikshank  and  E.  B.  Sherwood  and  Elder  Upton 
Rohrer,  a  committee  appointed  by  Platte  Presbytery, 
met  at  the  school  house  on  Hackberry  Ridge  (several 
miles  northwest  of  Savannah),  May  12,  1872,  and  find- 
ing 'the  way  clear,'  organized  the  Hackberrs'  Ridge 
Presbyterian  Church.  The  church  consisted  of  the  fol- 
lowing sixteen,  who  were  dismissed  by  order  of  Pres- 
bytery, from  the  Savannah  Church:  Andrew  Barr, 
Harriet  Barr,  :Jane  Barr,  John  T.  Barr,  Wm.  Barr.  Wm. 
X.  Barr,  Abner  Hart,  jMary  Hart,  Andrew  Hunter, 
Sarah  Himter,  Theodore  F.  Hunter,  Bernice  Liggett, 
John  Liggett,  Mary  Liggett,  Elijah  ]\Iartin  and  Sarah 
E.  Martin;  Jasper  Conway  and  Rebecca  Conway,  re- 
ceived by  certificate ;  and  Harriet  Isabella  Barr,  Jo- 
seph Barr,  Mary  Jane  Barr,  Maggie  Bricilla  Hunter, 
Wm.  Hunter,  Amanda  Langford,  M.  Louisa  Virginia 
IMartin,  Frances  ]M.  Tatloek  and  Susan  ^Mildred  Thraii- 
kill,  received  by  profession.  T.  F.  Hunter,  J.  Liggett 
and  E.  INIartin  were  chosen  and  ordained  as  elders: 
and  Jasper  Conway  and  Abner  Hart,  deacons." 

Later,  Andrew  Barr  and  Abner  Hart  were  added  to 
the   eldership.      March   26,    1896,    after  the   death    of 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  145 

Elder  Barr,  who  for  many  A^ears  had  been  the  only  elder, 
Wm.  N.  Barr  and  Robert  Goodloe  were  elected  elders ; 
and  Wirt  Ball  and  Tine  MeMurray,  deacons.  But  the 
change  in  the  residents  of  the  neighborhood,  which  had 
been  going  on  for  years,  continued  so  that  the  mem- 
bership was  reduced  to  six  in  1905.  The  church  has 
been  disbanded  since,  and  the  plain  but  commodious 
house  of  worship,  erected  soon  after  the  organization, 
has  been  sold.  The  church  was  always  grouped  with 
Savannah  and  served  by  its  pastors. 

The  following  sketch  of  Mr.  Barr,  who  was  the 
Clerk  of  Session  for  fifteen  years,  was  furnished  by 
Eev.  James  Reed,  one  of  his  pastors. 

Andrew  Barr  wasi  born  December  10,  1822  in  Coun- 
ty Down,  Ireland,  and  when  quite  small  came  with  his 
parents  to  America,  living  for  a  short  time  in  Pennsyl- 
vania and  then  in  Scioto  county,  Ohio,  where  he  mar- 
ried Jane  Liggett.  He  came  to  Andrew  county  in  1847 
or  1848.  About  1852,  he  moved  to  Daviess  county 
where  he  lived  till  April,  1865,  when  he  returned  to 
Andrew  county  and  settled,  in  1866,  on  the  farm  where 
he  died,  February  8',  1896.  J\Ir.  Barr  was  an  earnest 
and  devoted  Christian  man,  always  at  his  post  in  the 
church. 


Rev.  0.  D.  Allen  writes  that  the  first  meeting  of 
Platte  Presbyter}^  after  Barnett  Presbytery  was  con- 
solidated with  it,  was  held  at  Halleck,  Buchanan  coun- 
ty in  February,  ;L873,  so  that  we  may  reasonably  con- 
clude there  was  a  Cumberland  church  there  at  that 
time. 


The  Harmony,  now  the  Prairie  Valley,  Church,  is 
situated  near  and  east  of  Gallatin.  In  1905  it  reported 
fifty-seven  resident  members,  forty  in  Sabbath  school, 
and  church  property  valued  at  $1,000.  Henry  Hamil- 
ton was  Clerk  of  Session.  The  last  report  gives  it 
ninety-two  members  and  eighty-seven  in  Sabbath 
school.  Recent  pastors  are  M.  R.  Dougherty,  N.  M. 
Tatum  and  Geo.  B.  Sproule. 
—10 


146  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

The  Highland  Church  was  organized  December  7» 
1879,  at  the  Highland  school  house,  by  Revs.  Geo.  Mil- 
ler and  Geo.  A.  McKinlay  and  Elder  Robert  Mont- 
gomery, a  committee  appointed  hy  Platte  Presbytery, 
with  Miss  Adda  Carroll,  Mrs.  Eliz.  Carroll,  Josiah  Car- 
roll, Misses  Anna  and  Jessie  J.  Murray,  Linville  and 
Mary  Murray,  Nicholas  F.  and  Eliz.  J.  Murray,  Miss 
Josie  Norval,  Mrs.  Jane  Riggle,  Mrs.  Anna  Yates  and 
John  M.  Yates  as  members.  N.  F.  Murray  and  J.  M. 
Yates  were  elected  elders.  Most  of  the  above  were 
members  of  the  Oregon  Church  previously.  In  1881,  it 
reported  twenty-three  members  and  was  in  a  good 
financial  condition.  But  the  lack  of  a  house  of  wor- 
ship, with  deaths  and  removals,  caused  its  disband- 
ment. 


Honey  Creek  Church  is  near  Spickard.  In  1905  it 
reported  sixty-six  resident  members,  thirty  in  Sabbath 
school,  and  church  property  valued  at  $800.  S.  D. 
Belt  was  pastor,  and  J.  C.  Hon,  Clerk  of  Session. 


The  Independence  Church  is  six  miles  northeast 
of  Easton.  In  1905,  it  reported  eighty  resident  mem- 
bers, thirty  in  Sabbath  school  and  church  property 
valued  at  $900.  R.  H.  Craig  was  pastor.  The  last  re- 
port gives  thirtj^-five  members,  and  G.  W.  Williams, 
D.  T.  Mark,  Chas.  Krol^t,  Silas  Kerns  and  W.  H.  Sifers 
as  the  elders. 


The  Jameson  Church  was  organized  August  26, 
1882,  in  the  M.  E.  Church  (South),  by  Revs.  Alvin  B. 
Goodale  and  Geo.  A.  McKinlay  and  Elder  S.  D.  B. 
Poage,  with  Geo.  P.  and  Sarah  Allen,  Miss  Lucy  Cole, 
Lewis  J.  Gallagher,  Miss  Jessie  IMiller,  Dr.  Charles  and 
Mary  Frances  Pipkin  and  John  S.  and  Sarah  E.  White 
as  members.  Dr.  C.  Pipkin  and  J.  S.  White  were 
elected  elders.  Geo.  P.  Allen  and  John  H.  Miller  be- 
came elders  later. 

The  last  sessional  record  is  dated  February  17, 
1895,  when  eight  members,  including  an  elder,  were 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  147 

dismissed  to  other  churches.  On  the  removal  of  Dr. 
Pipkin,  always  the  Clerk  of  Session,  who  had  labored 
heroically  to  sustain  the  church,  it  was  dropped  from 
the  roll.  No  house  of  worship  had  been  erected,  the 
Methodist  brethren  having  most  courteously  and  gen- 
erously given  the  use  of  their  church  for  all  meetings. 


In  1905,  the  Jamesport  Church  reported  twenty- 
eight  resident  members,  thirty  in  Sabbath  school,  and 
church  property  valued  at  $1500.  J.  W.  McGee  was 
Clerk  of  Session. 


April  3,  1868,  "Rev.  J.  P.  Fox  reported  to  Upper 
Missouri  Presbytery  the  organization  in  part  of  a 
church  at  Kingston.  The  report  was  adopted  and  the 
committee  continued."  It  was  "stricken  from  the 
roll,"  April  3,  1869. 


The  Liberty  Church,  eight  miles  northwest  of  Al- 
bany, reported  thirty  resident  members,  thirty  in  Sab- 
bath school,  and  church  property  valued  at  $500,  in 
1905.  M.  B.  Irvine  was  pastor,  and  W.  P.  Caster, 
Clerk  of  Session.  In  1907,  J.  R.  Ross  was  clerk  of 
Session. 


The  Long  Branch  Church,  located  in  the  vicinity  of 
Hopkins,  appears  first  in  1878,  with  eleven  members 
and  was  supplied  for  five  years  by  Rev.  F.  B.  Dins- 
more.  Though  its  highest  number  of  members  was 
nineteen,  it  had  four  elders,  James  H.  Bain,  Noah 
Barks,  John  McKee  and  H.  H.  Conrad.  It  never  had  a 
house  of  worship.  At  its  last  report,  in  1885,  it  had 
ten  members.  , 


The  Macedonia  Church,  which  is  near  Bogard,  was 
organized  in  1860.  In  1905  it  reported  forty  resident 
members  and  church  property  valued  at  $1,000.  S.  S. 
Hardin  was  the  pastor,  and  J.  C.  Daugherty,  Clerk  of 


l48  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Session.  J.  C.  Daugherty  and  W.  ^L  Dice  are  the 
present  elders,  and  J.  Caulk  the  .Sabbath  school  Super- 
intendent. 


Maple  Grove  Church,  five  miles  northeast  of  Fair- 
fax, reported  twenty-six  resident  members  and  church 
property  valued  at  $1,200,  in  1905.  AV.  H.  Hindman 
was  Clerk  of  Session,  and  it  had  no  pastor.  J.  A. 
Sauceman  was  Clerk  of  Session  in  1906. 


April  3,  1868',  Upper  Missouri  Presbytery  enrolled 
a  church  recently  organized  at  Mar^^ville  by  Revs.  J. 
N.  Young  and  Wm.  M.  Stryker.  It  reported  twelve 
-members  in  1869,  and  was  dissolved  by  Presbytery 
and  stricken  from  its  roll,  April  2,  1870.  Mrs.  John 
Leiber,  the  only  charter  member  known,  became  after- 
wards a  charter  member  of  the  Union  Church. 


The  McFall  Church,  which  was  organized  in  1888, 
reported  twelve  resic^ent  members,  church  property 
valued  at  $1000  and  $150  paid  for  preaching,  in  1905. 
Wm.  P.  BroAvn  was  Clerk  of  Session.  The  recent  pas- 
tors are  E.  L.  Uptegrove,  Geo.  B.  Sproule  and  E.  C. 
Seabright.  W.  P.  Brown  and  Daniel  Fox  are  the 
elders. 


The  Mizpah  Church  was  organized,  April  14,  1878, 
in  the  New  Salem  school  house  (eight  miles  northwest 
of  Skidmore  and  two  miles  south-east  of  Dotham)  by 
Revs.  J.  W.  Allen  and  E.  B.  Sherwood,  and  Elders 
Adam  Faris  and  H.  C.  Wilson  of  Tarkio,  a  committee 
of  Platte  Presbytery  appointed  for  the  purpose.  ]\Irs. 
Margaret  Bilb}^  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Botkin,  Mrs.  E.  F.  Car- 
ter, Mrs.  Alamed  Speakman,  Bruce  and  Mary  A.  Walk- 
er and  John  A.  and  Nancy  Wilson  were  received  by 
letter;  and  Mrs.  Lizzie  Sloper,  Miss  Anna  Walker, 
and  Homer  L.  and  Lucy  T.  Walker,  on  profession.  B. 
Walker  and  J-.  A.  Wilson  were  elected  elders.  John 
Dyer  Owens,  a  licentiate  of  Allegheny  Presbytery  had 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  149 

prea,ched  there,  as  ,one  of  his  mission  stations,  reg^ularly 
for  the  previous  six  months. 

Later,  J.  Hervey  Laird  became  an  elder;  and  John 
W.  Botkin  and  John  Price,  deacons.  The  church  never 
had  a  house  of  worship.  Owing*  to  the  building  of  a 
railroad  near,  New  Salem  ceased  to  be  a  central  point, 
and  being-  reduced  to  a  membership  of  nine,  the  church 
was  disbanded  April  22,  1896,  after  bravely  and  faith- 
fully doing  a  good  work.  Elder  Walker  stood  by  it 
till  the  last. 


The  Mt.  Carmel  Church,  eight  miles  from  Bogard, 
was  organized  in  1881.  In  1905  it  reported  twenty- 
seven  resident  members,  church  property  valued  at 
$500,  and  $148  expended  in  repairs.  G.  S.  Renner  was 
Clerk  of  Session  and  S.  E.  McDonald,  pastor.  The 
present  elders  are  G.  S.  Renner  and  Adam  Liller. 


The  Mt.  Carmel  Church,  near  Rockport,  reported  in 
1905  twenty-five  resident  members,  fort}^  in  Sabbath 
school,  church  property  valued  at  $800,  and  $150  for 
preaching.  W.  C.  Carter  was  pastor  and  W.  D.  Mor- 
row, Clerk  of  Session.  G.  W.  Moitow  was  Clerk  of 
Session  in  1907. 


The  Mt.  Gilead  Church,  near  Cameron,  reported 
nine  resident  members  and  church  property  valued  at 
$1,000,  but  no  pastor,  in  1905.  H.  Wamsley  was  Clerk 
of  Session. 


The  early  name  of  the  Mt.  Pleasant  Church,  near 
Richmond,  was  Timber  Ridge.  In  1905,  it  reported 
thirty-three  resident  members,  and  church  property, 
which  includes  a  manse,  valued  at  $2,000.  J.  E.  Cort- 
ner  was  pastor,  and  W.  R.  Patton,  Clerk  of  Session. 


In  1905,  the  Mt.  Zion  Church,  near  Denver,  Har- 
rison county,  reported  nineteen  resident  members,  for- 


150  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

ty-five  in  Sabbatli  school,  and  property  valued  at  $650. 
J.  E.  Carver  was  Clerk  of  Session. 


The  New  Market — later  the  Dearborn — Church  was 
organized  September  1,  1866,  by  Rev.  J.  L.  Riley  with 
the  following  members:  Sarah  E.  Baty,  Catharine 
Carnard,  Ann  Eliza  Cartwright,  Mary  Erie,  Virginia 
Erie,  Martha  Furber,  G.  W.  Gant,  Nancy  A.  Gant, 
Susan  S.  Gant,  Rebecca  Gibbs,  Elizabeth  Lamar,  Fran- 
ces Lamar,  John  Lamar,  Wm.  Lamar,  Anah  Mason, 
Carrie  Neal,  Mary  H.  Neal,  S.  D.  Neal,  Hannah  Single- 
ton and  Josie  Singleton.  John  Lamar  and  S.  D.  Neal 
were  chosen  elders. 

J.  L.  Riley,  F.  M.  Miller,  James  H.  Norman,  R.  D. 
Miller  and  C.  B.  Powers  were  among  the  early  pastors. 
The  elders  are  John  Lamar,  ,S.  D.  Neal,  Jerome  Mullen- 
dore,  Wm.  Litzenberg,  Wm.  A.  Singleton,  John  Wood- 
house,  Wm.  Wilson  and  James  Siner. 

Rev.  Geo.  D.  Mullendore  writes:  "We  worshiped 
with  the  M.  E.  people  both  at  New  Market  and  at 
Dearborn,  but  at  New  Market  yve  owned  a  half  inter- 
est in  the  house,  and  at  Dearborn  they  extended  the 
courtesy  of  their  church  to  us  until  during  the  pastor- 
ate of  Rev.  Chas  B.  Powers,  we  built  a  joint  house, 
about  1880,  with  the  Christians  with  whom  we  held  ser- 
vices, they  having  the  exclusive  right  of  the  house  one 
half  of  every  month  and  we  the  other  half,  and  we  got 
on  well  together  until  we  sold  out  our  half  to  them 
about  two  years,  ago,  on  account  of  removals  and 
deaths.  We  removed  from  New  Market  upon  the 
founding  of  Dearborn,  when  we  sold  our  property  in 
New  Market." 

The  report  for  1905  gave  ten  resident  members, 
church  property  valued  at  $400,  and  $50  spent  in  re- 
pairs. This  church  since  then  has  been  dropped  from 
the  roll,  after  having  done  a  good  work  and  furnished 
to  the  church  at  large  one  useful  minister,  Geo.  D.  Mul- 
lendore, son  of  Elder  Jerome  jMullendore.  Mrs.  Edith 
Siner,  the  last  Clerk  of  Session,  being  too  enfeebled  bv 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  151 

age  for  the  task,  passed  the  letter  of  inquiry  over  to 
another  venerable  "Mother  in  Israel,"  Mrs.  Kathryne 
(Jerome)  Mullen dore,  who  was  translated  to  her  hea- 
venly home  by  a  cyclone,  near  Hydro,  Okla.,  June  5, 
1909.  In  June,  1908,  with  trembling  hand,  she  furn- 
ished most  of  the  above  information  in  the  form  of 
full  extracts  from  the  Records. 


The  Osborn  Church  was  organized  June  5,  1865,  by 
Rev.  E.  B.  Sherwood  with  the  following  members: 
Sidney  J.  Brownson,  Mrs.  Nancy  Edie,  Thos.  J.  Edie, 
Carrie  W.  Higgins,  Mrs.  Harriett  W.  Higgins,  Mrs. 
Alice  A  Loring  and  Wm.  E.  Loring.  W.  E.  Loring  was 
elected  elder ;  and  S.  J.  Brownson,  T.  J.  Edie  and  W.  E. 
Loring,  trustees!.  A  church,  twenty  by  forty  feet,  was 
erected  in  1869.  Later  on,  S.  J.  Brownson.  Samuel 
Bouton,  Geo.  A.  McKinlay  and  Geo.  A.  Brown  were 
chosen  elders.  The  church  was  served  by  C.  W.  Hig- 
gins, J.  C.  Thornton  and  James  H.  Hunter.  The  last 
meeting  of  Session  recorded  was  January  21,  1880. 
The  church  was  sold  in  1893,  and  the  proceeds  turned 
over  to  the  Board  of  Church  Erection. 

Always  a  small  church  and  fatally  depleted  by  re- 
movals, it  did  not  live  in  vain,  for  it  gave  the  church 
one  valuable  minister,  Geo.  A.  McKinlav. 


In  1893,  there  was  a  Cumberland  Church  at  Osborn, 
but  since  that  date  it  has  disappeared  from  the  rolls. 


The  Paint  Lick  Church,  eight  or  ten  miles  north  of 
Trenton,  was  organized  early  in  1856  by  Rev.  Timothv 
Morgan.  It  had  a  plain  building.  It  became  extinct 
during  the  Civil  War. 


The  Minutes  of  the  Synod  of  ]\Iissouri  for  1885-7 
give  Patton  as  the  name  of  a  church  in  the  Presbytery 
of  Platte,  with  N.  C.  Griffith,  M.  D.  as  its  elder,  but  the 
name  has  not  been  found  elsewhere. 


15J  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

A  church  was  organized  at  Phelps  City  by  Rev.  E. 
B.  Sherwood,  September  2,  1869,  and  in  1870  reported 
ten  members,  and  fifty  in  Sabbath  school.  Of  the  char- 
ter and  early  members  only  the  following  are  known : 
Mrs.  Bush,  Mr.  and  ]Mrs.  Dort,  Miss  Ellen  Dort,  Mr. 
Osborne,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robinson  and  Miss  Emma  C. 
Shepperson.  Mr.  Dort  was  chosen  elder,  Mr.  Osborne, 
deacon,  and  pev.  Luther  Dodd  became  the  pastor  in 
1871.  Mr.  Robinson  became  elder  later.  After  the 
death  of  Mr.  Dort,  the  pastor  and  a  part  of  the  church 
became  discouraged,  so  that  the  church,  at  its  own  re- 
quest, was  disbanded  April  3,  1873. 

Most  of  the  above  was  furnished,  from  memory, 
in  March,  ,1906,  by  ]\Iiss  Shepperson,  the  only  surviving 
charter  member. 


The  Pisgah  Church,  six  or  eight  miles  northwest 
of  Bethany,  was  organized  by  Revs.  F.  B.  Dinsmore 
and  D.  McRuer,  October  17,  1873.  In  1874  it  reported 
sixteen  members,  and  Rev.  F.  B.  Dinsmore  as  pastor. 
It  was  disbanded  in  il875. 


Tradition  says  that  Platte  was  the  name  of  one  of 
the  four  churches  with  which  Platte  Presbytery,  C.  P. 
was  organized.  Very  probably  it  was  the  Agency 
Church,  of  whose  early  histoiy  we  have  learned 
nothing. 


Platte  Church  Avas  organized  by  Rev.  F.  Starr,  Nov- 
ember 20,  1853.  In  1854  it  reported  four  members, 
and  in  1855,  six. 


There  was  a  Cumberland  Church  in  Platte  City  in 
the  sixties.  It  is  mentioned  incidentalh^  in  the  AnnaiS 
of  Platte  County. 


Pleasant  Ridge  Church,  one  mile  south-east  of  Fair- 
fax, was  organized  in  1868.  In  1905,  it  reported  sixty- 
three  resident  members,  fifty  in  Sabbath  school,  church 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  153 

property  including  a  manse  $1800,  and  $140  expended 
in  repairs.  S.  T.  Divinia  was  the  pastor,  and  W.  K. 
White,  Clerk  of  Session.  Present  elders  W.  K.  White, 
W.  H.  Hindman,  Richard  White  and  J.  A.  Hun- 
ter, M.  D. 


A  church  was  organized  March  20,  1881  at  Ravan- 
na  by  Revs.  E.  B.  Sherwood  and  John  Huston,  with 
thirteen  members,  llezekiah  Snyder  and  Thos.  Clap- 
ham  were  the  elders,  and  Jacob  Clingingsmith,  the 
deacon.  Being  inadquately  supplied  with  preaching 
because  of  its  isolation,  it  languished,  and  was  dropped 
from  the  roll,  April  2,  1885. 


Richfield  Church  appears  in  the  Minutes  of  the 
General  Assembly  (O.  S.)  for  1869,  as  vacant  and 
having  forty  members.  Its  location  is  an  unsolved 
puzzle. 


A  New  School  church  was  organized  at  Richmond 
in  February,  1843,  by  Rev.  Edmund  Wright.  In  1846 
it  reported  thirty  members  and  Elijah  P.  Noel  as  pas- 
tor. Col.  John  Rice  was  a  very  active  and  prominent 
elder  in  it.  In  1853,  it  reported  five  members,  and  in 
1854,  onlv  three. 


Nov.  18,  1883,  Rev.  W.  T.  Scott  and  Elder  S.  A. 
Gray  organized  the  Rockford  Church  (near  Hale).  Dr. 
W.  H.  Dice  wrote,  October,  1905:  ''Rockford  Church 
had  for  charter  members,  John  AA^amock,  Margaret 
Warnock,  Clara  Warnock,  Bell  Frock  and  Martin 
Crose  and  wife.  John  Warnock  was  the  elder  and  very 
devoted  to  the  church."  Probably  this  church  was  the 
successor  of  the  Grand  River  Church  organized  by  Rev. 
J.  D.  Beard  in  1871.  In  1884  it  reported  eleven  mem- 
bers and  two  elders.  Some  of  its  members  joined  in 
the  forming  of  the  Tina  Church  in  1886,  and  it  was 
disbanded  in  March,  1887.  Its  elders  were  J.  War- 
nock and  Stephen  Crose. 


154  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Eock  House  Church,  about  five  miles  south  of  Eas- 
ton  and  now  extinct,  was  represented  by  Elder  Abijah 
Means  at  the  organization  of  Platte  Presbyter v  (C  P.) 
in  April,  1845. 


Rock  House  Church,  (probably  in  the  vicinity  of 
the  above)  appears  in  the  report  of  Platte  Presbytery 
(0.  ,S.)  for  1859,  with  seventeen  members,  and  two 
adult  and  six  infant  baptisms,  Robert  Scott  beinj?  the 
pastor. 


There  was  a  Cumberland  Church  at  San  Antonio  in 
the  early  sixties,  but  no  particulars  have  been  obtained. 
It  may  have  been  one  of  the  four  churches  with  which 
Platte  Presbytery  began,  of  which  Bee  Creek,  Rock 
House  and  Cumberland  Ridge  (Savannah)  are  knoAvn. 


The  Shady  Grove  Church  was  stricken  from  the 
roll  by  Kansas  City  Presbytery,  April  22,  1908.  Hev. 
James  Froman  wrote,  July,  1908  :  ' '  Shady  Grove  Con- 
gregation was  once  prominent  in  religious  Avork.  The 
church  building  is  still  standing,  three  and  a  half  miles 
east  of  Kearney.  The  congregation  nearly  all  wor- 
ship at  Pratherville  now,  but  have  a  Basket  Meet- 
ing once  a  year  on  the    old  Camp  Ground." 


Mrs.  Adelia  Taylor,  Clerk  of  Session,  wrote  in  June, 
1007:  "The  Tinney  Grove  Congregation  was  organ- 
ized at  the  Tinney  Grove  Methodist  church,  April  30, 
1888,  by  Rev.  0.  D.  Allen.  The  original  members  were: 
Caleb  Brown,  A.  B.  Cowsert,  M.  F.  Cowsert,  Rosannaii 
Cowsert,  Sarah  Cowsert,  Wm.  A.  Cowsert,  John  A. 
Dixon,  Almeda  Hampton,  B.  A.  Johnson,  H.  S.  John- 
son, Adelia  Long,  Ollie  Long,  Lucinda  Long,  S.  H. 
Long,  S.  F.  Petree,  Caroline  Wingling  and  Rosinda 
Wingling ;  the  ruling  elders :  A.  B.  Cowsert,  C.  Brown, 
J.  A.  Dixon,  Jos.  L.  Wilson,  John  A.  Petree,  Hedar  O. 
Cowsert  and  Harvey  E.  Hanna  ;  and  the  ministers :  O. 
D.  Allen,  E.  S.  Ragan,  James  Froman,  Geo.  W.  Haw- 


HISTORY  OP  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  155 

ley,  H.   G.  King,  H.  W.  Fisher,  H.  K.  Norris,  E.   M. 
Wright  and  L.  F.  Hayes." 

The  church  house  which  was  valued  at  $500,  in 
J  905,  is  located  near  Braymer.  Then  there  were  but 
nine  ii^iciirbers,  and  fewer  since.  By  removals  to  a  rail- 
road town  near,  and  the  giving  up  of  the  post  office 
for  a  rural  (route,  the  place  ceased  to  be  a  center  of 
population  and  business,  and  the  church  was  stricken 
from  the  roll,  July  31,  1908. 


A  church  was  organized  at  Trenton  in  September 
or  October,  1851,  by  Rev.  S.  J.  M.  Beebe,  with  six  mem- 
bers. Elder  James  G.  Vincent  represented  it  repeated- 
ly in  Lexington  Presbytery.  It  reported  nine  members 
in  1853,  and  ten,  in  1856. 


Union  Chapel,  near  Clarksdale,  reported,  in  1905, 
thirty  resident  members,  church  property  valued  at 
.$500,  and  $45  expended  in  repairs.  0.  B.  Lawliss  was 
the  pastor,  and  J.  M.  Hayter,  Clerk  of  Session.  A.  S. 
McDaniel  was  the  pastor  in  1906, 


April  24,  1842,  Rev.  Geo.  M.  Crawford  reported  as 
follows  to  Lexington  Presbytery:  ''On  the  sixteenth 
day  of  November,  1851,  I  organized  a  church  in  Car- 
rollton  consisting  of  eight  members.  Two  were  elected 
elders.  The  above  church  asks  to  be  taken  under  care 
of  this  Presbytery  and  to  be  called  the  Wacandah 
Presbyterian  Church."  (The  name  is  also  written 
Waconda  and  Wakenda,  and  it  appears  in  printed 
records  repeatedly,  as  [the  Carrollton  Church.)  Jamf  s 
Arter  was  one  of  the  elders,  and  Wm.  Wallace,  who 
represented  the  church  in  Presbytery  in  October,  1855, 
was  probably  the  other.  In  1855,  it  reported  fifteen 
members,  and  the  same  number  in  1859.  The  Civil 
War  seems  to  have  quenched  this  little  light,  as  well  as 
many  others. 


156  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

In  1905,  the  Watson  Church  reported  eighty-three 
resident  members,  fifty  in  the  Sabbath  school,  and 
church  propert}^,  including  a  manse,  valued  at  $2,000. 
Rev.  A¥.  C.  Carter  was  the  pastor,  and  W.  H.  Good, 
Clerk  of  Session.  James  M.  Bell  was  pastor  in  1906. 
The  present  elders  are  W.  H.  Good,  Marion  Good,  I.  B. 
Jones,  M.  D.,  Sylvester  Hall  and  John  Garst.  The 
Sabbath  school  is  very  flourishing. 


The  Westboro  Chureh  was  organized  August  23, 
1882  by  Revs.  B.  D.  Luther  and  F.  J.  Reichert.  In  1883 
it  reported  two  elders  and  fourteen  members.  While 
it  was  grouped  with  Tarkio  it  prospered,  but  being  left 
for  years  without  a  supply,  it  died  a  slow  death.  In 
1892  it  reported  only  eight  members. 


The  West  Fork  Church,  near  Grant  City,  in  1905, 
reported  thirtj^-eight  resident  members,  thirty  in  Sab- 
bath school  and  church  property  valued  at  $800.  W. 
O.  H.  Perry  was  the  pastor  and  Joseph  Simpson,  Clerk 
of  Session.    S.  H.  Murray  was  the  pastor  in  1906. 


Since  the  first  "form"  was  printed,  it  has  been 
learned  that  the  West  Union  Church  was  about  six 
miles  east  of  Weston.  At  one  time  it  had  thirty-three 
members,  but  Weston  having  become  a  large  and  thriv- 
ing place,  the  people  and  business  were  drawn  to  it. 


The  Wheeling  Church  was  organized  October  20, 
1869,  by  Rev.  E.  B.  Sherwood,  with  twelve  members. 
Isaac  A.  White  was  probably  the  first  elder.  The  fail- 
ure of  the  town  to  become  an  important  railroad  point 
explains  the  final- decadence  of  the  church.  A  lot  was 
given  to  the  church  at  the  beginning,  but  no  building 
was  ever  erected.  The  membership  reached  twenty- 
nine  in  1872  but  soon  the  existence  of  the  church  be- 
came a  struggle  which  was  bravely  kept  up  till  its  dis- 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  157 

bandment  in  1896.     Peter  P.   Peugh,   the   last  elder, 
stood  by  it  till  the  end. 


The  Willow  Brook  Church  was  organized  some  time 
in  1861  by  Rev.  Robert  Scott.  Its  Records  havino-  been 
destroyed  by  accident,  but  little  of  its  early  history 
can  be  given.  Its  house  of  worship  Avas  located  about 
twelve  miles  southeast  of  St.  Joseph.  Alex.  Smiles- 
was  one  of  the  first  elders,  and  John  Douglass  was 
probably  another.  In  1869  it  reported  only  six  mem- 
bers, but  in  1871,  nineteen.  Though  it  never  became 
larger,  it  maintained  a  flourishing  Sabbath  school  for 
a.  long  time,  and  was  not  formallv  disbanded  till  April 
20,  1893. 


158  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 


Early  Pioneers. 

It  is  due  to  tlie  living-  who  are  specially  mentioned 
here  and  elsewhere,  to  say  that  such  sketches  (except 
as  found  in  the  Ministerial  Register)  are  given  with- 
out either  their  knowledge  or  consent,  and  the  only 
regret  is  that  more  could  not  be  given,  for  the  Church 
has  a  right  to  know  something  of  and  to  appreciate 
its  worthies  before  they  are  called  away  to  higher 
service. 

The  fact  that  in  many  cases  the  dat^  concerning 
the  early  pioneers  is  disappointingly  meager,  has  not 
prevented  the  giving  of  that  little.  For  the  informa- 
tion we  are  able  to  give  about  the  early  pioneers  of 
the  Cumberland  Church,  we  are  chiefly  indebted  to 
Rev.  0.  D.  Allen. 

It  is  very  noticeable  that  the  early  pioneers  were 
not  only  "home  missionaries,"  but  also  largely  ''for- 
eign missionaries"  in  the  sense  of  laboring  among  the 
Indians.  Also,  that  they  were  largely  self-supporting, 
often  working  with  their  own  hands  as  did  the  Apostle 
Paul. 

Before  proceeding  to  individual  sketches,  a  few 
facts  of  early  history  w^orthy  of  preservation,  furn- 
ished by  Rev.  0.  D.  Allen,  w^ill  be  given. 

"Rev.  Henry  Renick  moved  from  Clay  county  into 
Platte  somewhere  between  1838"  and  1840.  About  that 
time  he  organized  at  the  Miller  school  house,  Avhat 
was  first  called  the  Bee  Creek  congregation.  About 
the  same  time  Rev.  John  Price  came  from  Logan 
countv,  Ky.,  and  settled  in  the  neighborhood;  and 
Revs."  Jesse  R.  Allen  and  Moses  Allen,  coming  from 
Calloway  county,  settled  in  the  same  parts.  Rev  Hugh 
R.  Smith  from  Clay  county  came  up  in  1841  and  set- 
tled where  the  tow^n  of  Wallace  now  is." 


Rev.  0.  D.  Allen,  the  Nestor  of  Platte  Presbytery 
(C.  P.),  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry  and  "Presbyterian 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  159 

all  the  way  back."  In  1851,  before  he  was  twenty- 
one,  he  was  sent  on  a  missionan^  tour  in  Northwesterji 
Missouri  and  Southwestern  Iowa,  and  his  whole  life 
has  been  emphatically  a  missionary  one.  ''Abundant 
in  labors,"  a  most  self-denying  Christian  soldier,  he 
has  ever  served  where  the  need  was  the  greatest  and 
the  fight  the  hottest.  Full  of  years  and  honors,  he  is 
still  an  indefati enable  worker. 


Major  Alexander  J.  Calhoun,  who  was  born  in  Wil- 
son Co.,  Tenn.,  November  10,  1814,  was  the  son  of 
Thomas  Calhoun,  a  greatly  revered  and  eminently 
pious  minister  of  the  gospel,  who  was  born  in  North 
Carolina  and  married  Mary  Robertson  Johnson  in 
1808.  In  1837,  Major  Calhoun  moved  to  Columbus, 
Miss.,  where  he  engaged  in  merchandising,  and  in 
1845,  to  Clay  county,  where  he  farmed  and  taught 
school  till  1853,  when  he  was  elected  Circuit  Clerk, 
which  position  he  held  till  1865,  and  again  from  1874 
till  1878. 

"Major  Calhoun  was  a  devout  Christian.  He  was 
long  a  leading  member  and  elder  in  the  Walnut  Grove 
(Bethlehem)  Cumberland  Church,  and  attended  ser- 
vices there  up  to  his  last  illness.  He  w^as  one  of  the 
kindliest,  sweetest  tempered  of  men,  and  all  his  paths 
were  those  of  peace.  In  manners  he  was  refined,  gentle 
and  gracious.  His  word  was  his  bond.  His  purse 
was  open  to  the  needy  at  all  times,  and  he  could  deny 
no  one  a  favor ;  hence  he  suffered  often  from  his  surety- 
ships. He  goes  with  the  blessing  of  all,  and  leaves  a 
deliciously  fragrant  memory." 

He  was  a  remarkably  active  and  vigorous  man, 
never  needing  or  using  spectacles,  and  passed  the 
ninetieth  milestone  on  life's  journey,  going  to  his  rest 
and  reward,  November  22,  1904. 


Rev.  Geo.  M.  Crawford  appears  first  (in  the  records 
we  have)  as  a  member  of  Lexington  Presbytery  at  its 
organization,  November  17,  1841.  He  took  part  in  the 
organization  of  the  Arrow    Rock,    Lexington,    Tabo, 


160  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Waconda  and  Plum  Grove  churches.  In  1853,  he  was 
the  oldest  member  of  the  Presbytery,  but  he  continued 
to  labor  till  his  death,  June  5,  1858. 


Rev.  Henry  Eppler,  son  of  Jonathan  Eppler  anci 
Elsie  Thomas,  was  born  December  6,  1808,  at  Seviers- 
ville,  Tenn.  His  parents  removed  to  Ft.  Hampton,  Ala  , 
in  1812,  and  from  there  to  Randolph  County,  Mo.,  in 
1822,  aiid  later  to  Carroll  county.  He  studied  at  Ric'i- 
mo  id  College,  took  theolo^  under  Rev.  Daniel  Patten, 
and  was  (undoubtedly)  licensed  and  ordained  by 
Barnett  Presbytery.  He  married  Elizabeth  Clark,  set- 
tled first  in  Clay  county,  and  removed  to  Andrew  Coun- 
ty in  the  fall  of  1837,  locating  on  Dillon  Creek.  Evi- 
dently he  was  largely  a  self-supporting  home  mission- 
ary, depending  much  on  farming  and  teaching.  After 
a  very  useful  life,  his  work  closed  at  Flag  Springs, 
October  1,  1888. 


Elder  Wm.  Jack,  born  in  Tennessee,  March  19, 
1778,  was  an  influential  citizen  of  Lexington,  Mo.,  w^here 
he  settled  about  1820.  He  was  converted  after  he  was 
forty  years  of  age  and  became  a  devout  and  useful 
ruling  elder.  He  raised  a  large  family  wdio  were  con- 
spicious  fifty  years  ago.  In  the  early  settlement  of  the 
Platte  Purchase  he  moved  to  Platte  City  wdiere  he  live-i 
many  years  in  usefulness  and  honor,  and  died  June  8, 
1864,  loved  and  regretted. 

Mr.  Paxton  says  (Annals  of  Platte  County)  :  "In 
1837  the  family  moved  to  Platte  and  after  a  few^  years 
settled  at  Platte  City.  They  were  a  father  and  mother 
in  Israel,  and  enjoyed  the  esteem  and  veneration  of  all 
men.  I  knew  him  only  in  his  hoary  age,  w^hen  his 
whole  soul  was  absorbed  in  holy  contemplations.  T 
procured  for  him  a  large-print  Testament,  and  every 
pleasant  day,  with  the  sacred  volume  under  his  arm, 
he  would  totter  to  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  at  a 
south  window,  spend  an  hour  in  reading,  contempla- 
tion and  prayer." 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTE'RY.  161 

Rev.  Samuel  King-  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Cumberland  Church.  He  moved  to  Clay  county  in  the 
fall  of  1824  or  1825,  settlmg  where  Shady  Grove  church 
now^  is,  four  miles  east  of  Kearney.  In  the  autumn  ot 
1833,  he  moved  into  Johnson  county  w^here  he  resided 
until  his  death  in  1842.  He  was  said  to  be  a  very 
earnest,  powerful  and  evangelical  preacher,  doing-  :\ 
wonderful  amount  of  good  wherever  he  went.  He 
preached  to  the  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  Indians,  and 
it  was  under  his  preaching  that  the  mother  of  the  Rev. 
Israel  Folsom,  a  native  Indian  preacher,  was  converted. 
His  preaching  sometimes  resulted  in  the  conviction  and 
conversion  of  the  interpreter.  Under  the  direction  of 
the  General  Assembly  he  traveled  extensively  through 
the  states  of  Missouri,  Arkansas,  Louisiana,  Mississippi, 
Alabama,  Tennessee  and  Kentucky,  spending  at  one 
time  twenty  months  away  from  his  home  and  family 
in  these  long  missionary  tours.  From  the  foundation 
which  he  laid  among  the  Choctaws,  a  thousand  of  that 
tribe  once  belonged  to  the  church. 


Elder  Robert  Lynn  was  born  in  Ballymena,  Ireland 
in  1825.  After  spending  twenty-two  years  in  Canada 
he  came  to  Missouri  in  1868.  He  has  always  been  a 
zealous,  imtiring  missionary  worker. 

Rev.  J.  M.  Morrison  writes:  "To  Mr.  Lynn  more 
than  any  one  else  is  due  the  organization  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Church  of  Rockport.  At  his  suggestion — I 
may  say  request — I  commenced  the  work  which  event- 
uated in  the  organization  of  that  church.  He  was  the 
first  elder,  and  the  leader  in  all  the  branches  of  its 
work.  He  is  a  man  of  earnest  piety,  pronounced  opin- 
ions and  indomitable  energy.  His  life  is  beyond  criti- 
cism and  is  a  recommendation  of  religion.  He  has  the 
good-will,  esteem  and  confidence  of  all,  and  so  far  as  I 
know,  the  ill-will  of  none." 


Rev.  Duncan  McRuer  did  not  come  to  IMissouri  from 
Canada  till  1871,  yet  he  was  truly  a  pioneer  in  the  sec- 
tion of  the  country  where  he  located.  He  was  n-'^t 
^11 


162  HISTORY    OP    PLATTE    PRESBYTE'RY.       . 

afraid  of  work  or  hardship,  even  starting  out  in  the 
face  of  a  blizzard  to  fill  an  appointment. 

A  co-presbyter  writes:  ''Rev.  Duncan  McRuer  wag 
a  large  man  in  every  way.  His  large  head  was  mado 
massive  in  appearance  by  closely  curling  dark  hair 
and  beard.  His  father  Avas  a  Highlander  who  intoned 
his  reading  of  the  Bible  and  his  prayers  at  family 
worship  because  it  was  not  reverent  to  speak  to  God 
or  about  Him  in  the  tones  of  ordinarj^  speech.  Mr.  Mc 
Ruer  used  to  regret  that  he  had  never  been  able  to 
entirely  rid  himself  of  that  habit.  He  preached  with  a 
small  Bible  open  in  his  hand  and  with  few  gestures; 
his  round,  full  voice  rising  and  falling  in  regular  ca- 
dence like  the  waves  of  the  sea. 

''He  was  a  clear,  strong  thinker,  and  wdien  roused, 
an  eloquent,  impressive  speaker.  His  field  was  Har- 
rison county  and  he  seldom  missed  an  appointment, 
though  Akron  was  twenty-two  miles  from  his  home. 
His  traveling  companion  was  a  large  mule  bearing  the 
familiar  but  unpopular  name  of  Cain. 

"He  loved  to  discuss  theology.  As  chairman  of  the 
Home  Mission  Committee,  it  was  my  pleasure  once  to 
spend  several  days  with  him  riding  over  his  great  par- 
ish and  digging  into  the  deep  things  of  God.  He  closed 
the  interview — 'I'm  glad  to  call  you  my  friend,  Bul- 
lard,  but  ve'r  no  sound!  ye'r  no  sound!'  " 


Elder  John  Meyer  was  born  in  Baden,  Germany, 
December  29,  1822.  With  his  parents:  he  came  first  to 
Ohio,  and  then  to  Holt  Co.,  Mo.  He  was  converted 
while  serving  as  farmer  in  the  Iowa  and  Sac  India  a 
Mission  at  Highland,  Kans.  After  some  years  of  mis- 
sionary service  there  he  settled  at  New  Point.  He  was 
one  of  the  charter  members  and  elders  of  the  Oregon 
Church  and  a  regular  attendant,  coming  the  long  dis- 
tance with  an  ox  team.  Later  he  was  a  charter  member 
and  elder  of  the  New  Point  Church  also.  One  beauti- 
ful trait  of  his  active,  energetic  and  consecrated  char- 
acter was  his  loyalty  to  his  pastors.  Only  once  in  his 
life  did  he  criticise  one  of  them,  even  in  his  own  familv, 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  163 

and  tliat  was  a  great  surprise  to  them.  He  was  happily 
mated,  marrying  a  Moravian  lady.  All  their  thirteen 
children  became  Presbyterians — one  of  them,  William, 
a  minister. 


Rev.  F.  Mitchell  Miller  came  to  Andrew  county  m 
the  spring  of  1843,  when  his  father,  Wm.  A.  Miller 
moved  there.  He  was  converted  at  the  age  of  seven- 
teen or  eighteen,  and  put  himself  under  the  care  of 
Platte  Presbytery  at  its  organization,  April,  1845.  He 
was  licensed  April,  1849,  at  the  Savannah  camping 
ground,  and  for  two  years  labored  as  a  home  mission- 
ary in  Southwestern  low^a  and  Northwestern  Missouri. 
September  6,  1848,  he  married  Nancy  E.  McDonald, 
and  his  father  died  soon  after,  leaving  him  the  care  of 
his  mother  and  three  younger  brothers.  In  earlier 
years  he  hired  a  hand  for  the  farm  and  missionated 
nearly  six  months,  teaching  a  school  in  the  fall  and 
winter  for  sixteen  consecutive  winters.  He  served  the 
church  at  San  Antonio  for  many  years,  but  was  very 
active  all  his  life  as  an  evangelist  and  organizer  of 
churches. 


Rev.  Robert  D.  Morrow,  D.  D.,  was  the  young  man 
whom  the  Women's  Missionary  Society  of  Kentucky 
sent  as  missionary  to  the  Territory  of  Missouri  in  1817 
or  1818.  No  particulars  can  be  given  of  his  missionary 
work  in  all  this  region,  but  he  Avas  a  very  logical,  virile 
and  wonderfully  effective  preacher.  In  1850,  he  was 
elected  President  of  Chapel  Hill  College,  an  institution 
previously  founded  by  A.  W.  Ridings  (who  had  been  n 
student  in  Chapel  Hill  College,  in  North  Carolina)  and 
legally  transferred  to  the  Missouri  Synod  (C.  P.).  He 
was  a  very  clear  theologian,  and  many  young  men  wert'' 
trained  in  theology  by  him,  both  before  and  during  his 
connection  with  the  College. 


None  of  the  early  pioneers  has  left  a  more  notable 
mark  than  the  Hon.  George  S.  Park.  Born  in  rugged 
Vermont,  near  Grafton,  October  22,  1811,  a  farmer  boy. 
with  limited  educational  advantages,  at  fifteen  he  start- 


164  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

ed  for  the  West,  walking  all  the  way  from  Sarato2:a 
Springs  to  Central  Ohio.  After  teaching-  school  there 
for  a  year,  he  went  to  Illinois  on  a  pony  purchased  by 
his  earnings,  and  later  entered  College  at  Jacksonville. 
His  eyes  giving  out  for  study  during  his  Junior  year, 
he  had  to  leave.  AVhile  teaching  in  Calloway  Co.,  Mo., 
in  1833-4,  he  was  converted  under  the  ministry  of  tho 
sainted  Dr.  David  Nelson,  and  made  public  profession 
of  his  faith  in  the  Presbyterian  church. 

He  w^as  one  of  the  first  to  volunteer  his  services  to 
the  young  Republic  of  Texas  under  Gen.  Houston,  and 
was  in  the  battle  of  San  Antonio  cle  Bexar  in  1836. 
But  he  led  a  "charmed  life"  for  the  Lord  had  high 
service  in  store  for  him  in  the  future.  He  was  sent 
from  the  Alamo  the  day  before  its  fatal  investment  as 
a  messenger  to  the  army  of  the  North  at  Goliad.  After 
its  honorable  surrender  he  was  among  the  330  doomed 
prisioners,  stripped  to  their  shirts  and  trousers,  treach- 
erously marched  out  in  divisions,  drawn  out  in  line 
on  the  bank  of  the  Coleto  River,  and  mercilessly 
shot  down,  by  the  orders  of  Santa  Ana.  With 
tAvo  others  he  dropped  at  the  flash,  and  lying 
quietly  till  the  firing  was  over,  he  plunged 
into  the  river  and  swam  across  amid  the  foam 
of  a  tempest  of  bullets.  After  weeks  of  night 
travel  he  reached  the  settlements  in  the  extreme  north, 
torn,  bleeding  and  almost  naked.  In  1837  he  took  a 
claim  at  the  mouth  of  the  Platte  River,  returned  to 
Vermont,  and  selling  his  small  patrimony  there, 
brought  a  stock  of  goods  from  New  York  City,  pur- 
chased the  site  of  Parkville  and  opened  a  store.  He 
soon  became  the  leading  business  man  of  the  com- 
munity. He  laid  out  Parkville  in  1844,  and  in  1854 
erected  the  stone  hotel  which  became  the  home  of  Park 
Colletie  in  1875.  A  volume  would  be  needed  to  give  the 
details  of  his  most  enterprising,  troublous  and  success- 
ful career,  but  some  notice  of  his  important  religious 
and  educational  activities  will  be  found  elsewhere. 

Far-sighted  and  untiringly  energetic  in  business: 
courteous,  quiet  and  unassuming  in  manners:  consider- 
ate and  thoughtful   of  others'  comfort:   forgiving  to- 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  165 

wards  those  who  had  sought  his  very  life ;  ever 
planning  and  working  for  the  temporal  and  eternid 
good  of  others;  and  as  firm  and  immovable  in 
standing  for  the  right,  as  the  massive  block 
of  Vermont  marble  that  marks  his  resting  place,  Mr. 
Park  exerted  an  influence  for  good  that  cannot  be 
measured. 


Rev.  Daniel  Patton  wasi  of  Irish  extraction  and  wms 
converted  when  seventeen,  in  Middle  Tennessee.  He 
was  sent  with  Rev.  R.  D.  King  as  missionary  into 
North  Alabama.  He  came  to  Ray  county  before  Rich- 
mond was  laid  out,  and  married  a  daughter  of  Rev. 
Samuel  King.  He  was  long  the  Stated  Clerk  of  Barnett 
Presbytery.  He  was  a  strong  and.  successful  preacher 
in  his  day.  He  died  almost  at  the  close  of  his  ninety- 
fifth  year,  full  of  honors,  labors  and  successes  in  the 
Master's  work. 


Rev.  Tapping  S.  Reeve  was  born  in  Holland,  Mass., 
October  5,  1808,  and  after  a  large  experience  and  train- 
ing as  S.  S.  missionary,  teacher  and  lawyer,  was  o.*'- 
dained  hy  the  Presbytery  of  St.  Louis,  October  20,  184:J. 
and  came  at  once  to  St.  Joseph.  The  first  sermon  ever 
preached  there  was  by  him  and  he  built  the  first  Prc:-;- 
byterian  church  of  logs,  a,  cut  of  the  successor  of  which 
appears  on  the  opposite  page.  He  was  very  active  in 
evangelistic  and  educational  lines.  He  Avas  moderator 
of  the  Synod  of  Missouri  (N.  S.)  in  1852.  He  died 
July  16,  1886. 


Elder  Andrew  Robertson  came  to  Clay  count.y  at  nu 
early  day  and  settled  four  miles  north  of  Ijiberty  where 
he  owned  a  large  tract  of  land  and  a  considerable  fam- 
ily of  negro  servants — forty  or  fifty  in  number — whom 
he  furnished  with  wagons  and  teams,  furniture  and 
bedding,  and  clothing  and  provisions,  and  sent  them 
away  to  Kansas  and  freedom,  in  the  midst  of  the  Civil 
War.  He  was  a  very  liberal  man  with  his  money  and 
a  very  useful  ruling  elder,  mainly  furnishing  the  means 
to  build  the   church  and  maintain  the   ordinances   of 


166  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

religion  in  the  church  (Bethlehem)  of  which  he  was  a 
member  axid  an  elder.  He  was  an  uncle  of  the  heaven- 
13^-minded  and  much-loved  Rev.  Hugh  Robertson  Smith, 
so  well  known  and  greatly  honored  among  us. 


Rev.  Edmimd  Wright,  son  of  Ichabod  Wright  and 
Mary  Clapp,  was  bom  in  Easthampton,  Mass.,  July  1, 
1808.  He  graduated  from  Williams  College  in  1836, 
and  studied  theology  at  East  Windsor,  Conn.  The  fol- 
lowing is  from  a  report  to  his  college  classmates : 

"I  was  city  missionary  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  from  1839 
to  April  1841,  during  which  time  I  visited  forty  coun- 
ties in  Missouri  and  preached  a  few  months  to  the  Pres- 
byterian church  in  Palmyra.  In  1842  I  became  mis- 
sionary and  pastor  at  Weston,  near  Ft.  Leavenworth, 
remaining  until  November,  1849.  I  then  returned  to 
St.  Louis  and  became  pastor  of  the  Spruce  Street 
Church  until  May,  1856.  A  month  later  I  became  agent 
for  the  American  Tract  Society,  and  continued  in  that 
service  over  two  and  a  half  years.  I  rested,  on  account 
of  ill  health,  till  May,  1863,  when  I  became  agent  for 
the  American  Bible  Society,  for  Missouri." 

After  twenty-five  years  of  service  he  resigned.  In 
his  closing  Report  to  the  American  Bible  Society,  he 
said:  *'I  collected  during  the  twenty-five  years  of  ser- 
vice $32,891.31,  and  the  amount  of  my  sales  was 
$135,488.36.  In  retiring  from  the  service  of  the 
Society,  its  noble  aims  and  world-wide  work  seems 
doubly  dear."  He  had  traveled  24,467  miles  on  official 
duty.  He  was  then  eighty  years  old,  but  full  of  streno^th 
and  vigor.  He  was  married  in  August,  1842,  to  Miss 
Achsah  Fidelia  Hurd  of  Bridgeport,  Vt.,  who  survives 
him,  and  is  still,  as  always,  abundant  in  good  works. 
After  retiring  he  made  his  home  with  his  only  surviv- 
ino-  child,  Mrs.  Anna  Bullard  Whitney,  of  Seattle,  till 
called  to  higher  service  in  August,  1901.  "His  was  a 
most  symmetrical  character,  worthv  of  emulation." 


Rev.  John  Lapsley  Yantis,  D.  D.,  born  in  Kentucky 
in  1804,  came  to  Missouri  in  1833.    He  labored  in  Clay 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  167 

county  till  1835,  and  again  in  1838-9.  His  most  notable 
work  in  our  territory  was  as  President  of  Richmond 
College.  He  was  a  remarkable  man,  as  is  seen  in  th^ 
sketch  of  him  in  Dr.  John  B.  Hill's  History  of  Kansas 
City  Presb3^tery.  ''His  work  as  an  evangelist  and 
minister  has  made  a  lasting  impression  upon  thousands, 
and  he  was  not  only  a  pioneer,  but  one  of  the  fathers 
of  Presbyterianism  in  Western  Missouri." 


Rev.  John  N.  Young  came  to  Missouri  in  1855,  and 
did  much  pioneer  work.  A  co-presbyter  writes  as 
follows : 

* '  The  ministry  of  Rev.  John  N.  Young  in  Northwest 
Missouri  in  connection  with  the  Presbytery  of  Upper 
Missouri,  fell  in  troublous  times.  In  such  times  he 
illustrated  the  Scriptural  ideal  of  the  ministry  as  "an 
example  in  all  things."  Not  only  was  he  faithful  and 
devoted  in  the  religious  duties  of  the  preacher,  but  so 
wise,  couragous  and  decided  in  political  matters  that 
he  w^as  elected  to  the  State  Senate.  When  those  duties 
w^ere  done  he  returned  to  the  care  of  the  churches  until 
advancing  age  released  him  from  such  responsibili- 
ties." 


168  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTETIY. 


German  Work. 

As  a  matter  of  history  something  should  be  said  of 
the  work  done  by  Presibyterians  among  our  German 
population.  Time  has  not  permitted  an  exhaustive  in- 
vestigation, so  that  what  isi  given  covers  only  the 
early  years,  and  was  mostly  connected  Avith  Lexington 
Presbyter3\ 

Conrad  Henry  Heckman  was  born  December  3, 
1811,  at  Bessendorf,  Germany,  was  educated  at  Rot- 
terdam, and  was  ordained  by  Lexington  Presbytery  in 
1849,  when  he  was  working  at  Weston.  He  is  reported 
at  BrunsAvick  in  1851,  and  in  1852  he  preached  also  at 
a  point  ten  milesi  from  Carrollton.  In  1853  he  removed 
to  the  Line  Creek  Church,  near  Parkville,  which  had  a 
log  church  and  land  valued  at  $260.  He  preached  there 
twice  a  month,  once  at  Weston  and  once  at  Westport. 
It  is  distinctly  stated  in  the  Records,  for  1853,  in  this 
connection,  that  the  above  named  churches  were  "not 
in  regular  Presbyterial  connection."  In  1856,  St.  John 
appears  as  one  of  his  churches  with  twenty-nine  mem- 
bers. Nothing  can  be  told  of  its  location  unless  it  was 
in  Andrew  county  where  there  is  now  a  German  Re- 
formed St.  Johns  Church,  which  is  not  probable.  The 
last  report  of  Mr.  Heckman's  work,  in  the  I\Iinutes  for 
1859,  gives  St.  Johns  twenty-nine  members ;  Weston, 
twenty-five;  Westport,  twenty-three,  and  Independ- 
ence, eleven,  but  as  the  report  was  starred,  it  referred 
to  an  earlier  date.  April  4,  1861,  he  was  received  by 
Platte  Presbytery  (O.  S.)  from  Lexington  Presbytery. 

April  4,  1861,  Platte  Presbytery  (0.  S.)  received 
under  its  care  a  German  church  in  St.  Joseph,  and  at 
the  same  time  received  and  enrolled  its  acting  pastor, 
Rev.  F.  W.  Steffens.  This  church  was  stricken  from 
the  roll,  April  11,  1833. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  169 


Platte  Presbytery  (U.  S.  A.). 

The  beginning'  of  its  history  is  found  on  the  first 
and  second  pages,  and  Dr.  Sherwood  continues: 

There  were  at  this  time  the  following  ministers  and 
churches  in  the  counties  which  constituted  the  Pres- 
bytery of  Platte  by  this  act  of  Synod. 

Ministers: — Elijah  A.  Carson,  Timothy  Morgan, 
Wm.  Reed,  John  N.  Young,  Nelson  H.  Smith,  Elisha 

B.  Sherwood,  John  Moore,  D.  D.,  Joel  Kennedy, 
Matthew  L.  Anderson,  Samuel  Sawyer,  Henry  Bullard, 

C.  W.  Higgins,  J.  M.  Green,  Wm.  H.  Cummings,  J.  ]\[. 
Morrison,  Wm.  H.  Gill,  J.  D.  Beard  and  J.  M.  Craw- 
ford—18. 

Churches: — Savannah,  Mt.  Zion,  Sixth  Street  St. 
Joseph,  Fillmore,  Oregon,  Paint  Lick,  Salem,  Union, 
Lathrop,  Grand  A^iew,  Hamilton,  Mirabile,  Alban^^,  Car- 
rollton.  Dawn,  Fairview,  Forest  City,  Willow  Brook, 
Graham,  Platte  City,  Weston,  Breckenridge,  Chilli- 
cothe,  Osborn,  Westminster,  St.  Joseph,  Easton,  Mary- 
ville,  Phelp's  City,  Oak  Grove,  New  York  Settlement, 
Crocked  River  and  Wheeling — 32. 

This  Presb^^tery  thus  constituted,  was  ordered  "to 
meet  in  the  Sixth  Street  church  of  St.  Joseph,  on  the 
21st  day  of  July,  1870,  at  7  :30  p.  m.  The  Rev.  Jolui 
Moore,  D.  D.,  or  in  his  absence,  the  oldest  minister 
present   to   preside   until   the   election   of   moderator ; 

And  furthermore,  the  Presbytery  of  Platte  is  hereb.v 
declared  to  be  the  proper  and  legal  successor  of  the 
Presbyteries  of  Upper  Missouri  and  Lexington,  and 
as  siuch  entitled  to  all  the  rights  and  franchise  and 
posessions,  and  liable  for  the  performance  of  all  the 
duties,  of  those  Presbyteries. ' ' 

On  the  21st  of  July  1870,  the  Presbytery  of  Piatt-, 
as  constituted  by  the  Synod  of  Missouri,  in  obedience 
to  order  of  General  Assembly  convened  in  the  Sixth 
Street  Presbyterian  church  at  7:30  p.  m.  In  the  ab- 
sence of  the  Rev.  John  M.  Moore,  D.  D.,  who  was  ap- 


170  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

pointed  to  open  the  Presbytery,  Rev.  E.  B.  Sherwood, 
the  oldest  minister  present  called  the  Presbytery  to 
order,  and  having  read  the  authority  by  which  they 
had  assembled,  called  on  the  Rev,  John  N.  Youn^  to 
open  the  meeting  with  prayer,  after  which  the  Rev.  E. 
B.  Sherwood  preached  a  sermon,  founded  upon  Rom. 
4:20,  21:  ''He  staggered  not  at  the  promises  of  God 
through  unbelief :  but  was  strong  in  faith,  giving  glory 
to  God;  and  being  fully  persuaded  that  what  he  had 
promised  he  was  able  also  to  perform. ' '  After  sermon 
he  formally  constituted  the  Presbytery  of  Platte  with 
prayer.  The  Rev.  W.  H.  Gill  was  then  chosen  clerk 
protem.  The  roll  of  members  present  was  then  made 
and  the  following  answered  to  their  names: 

Ministers : — John  N.  Young,  Nelson  H.  Smith,  E.  B. 
Sherwood,  Henrj^  BuUard,  Joel  Kennedy,  Matthew 
L.  Anderson,  J.  M.  Crawford  and  Wm.  H.  Gill. 

Elders: — John  Colhoun  of  Sixth  Street  Presbyter- 
ian church. 

The  Presbj^tery  as  its  first  act  resolved  to  spend  the 
first  half  hour  of  every  session  in  prayer,  after  whi'^/i 
it  adjourned  until  the  next  morning  at  9  o'clock,  clos- 
ing with  prayer. 

The  Presbytery  met  according  to  adjournment  at 
9  o'clock  on  the  22nd  of  July.  The  roll  was  called, 
and  the  following  additional  elders  reported:  Peter 
Fisher  from  the  church  at  Cameron  and  John  DeClue 
from  "Westminster  church,  St.  Joseph.  After  half  an 
hour  spent  in  prayer,  the  Presbytery  proceeded  to  tht^ 
election  of  officers.  Rev.  W.  H.  Gill  was  chosen  mod- 
erator and  Rev.  Henry  Bullard  stated  clerk.  Commit- 
tees were  filled  and  Platte  Presbytery  entered  upon 
the  work  assigned  her  in  the  19  counties  of  North- 
western Missouri." 

The  history  of  the  churches  has  already  been  given, 
and  a  brief  sketch  of  many  of  the  ministers  appears  in 
the  Ministerial  Register  so  but  little  more  need  be  said. 
Some  special  notice  of  those  who  have  been  markedly 
helpful  in  developing  the  churches,  in  bringing  them  to 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  171 

self-support,  and  in  giving  to  Platte  Presbytery  the 
position    it  came  to  occupy,  will  be  given  farther  on. 

The  union  and  reunion  with  the  Cumberland 
Church  was  hailed  with  delight  by  the  Presbytery, 
though  it  necessarily  involved  to  many  the  sundering 
of  long-cherished  ties  and  associations,  very  precious  in 
themselves.  The  healing  of  the  breaches  of  Zion  by  the 
formal  union  of  those  already  one  in  all  things  except 
the  name,  was  heartily  welcomed.  The  evangelistic 
zeal  of  the  Cumberland  brethren  which  led  them  to  the 
position  (or  offence,  if  w^e  prefer  so  to  call  it)  of  giv- 
ing, among  the  required  qualifications  for  the  ministry, 
the  classical  training  a  second  place  to  a  divinely  im- 
planted desire  and  fitness  for  soul-winning,  had  long 
since  won  the  sympathy  of  earnest  woirkers,  and  led 
them  to  forgive  the  offence.  And  the  disillusionment 
of  the  majority  of  the  Cumberland  brethren  as  to  the 
truth  and  propriety  of  the  claim  of  the  Primitive  Bap- 
tists, with  their  fatalism  and  opposition  to  all  forms  of 
Christian  activitj^,  to  be  the  representatives  and  ex- 
ponents of  Calvinism  (which  led  so  many  to  justly 
abhor  the  veiy  word  Calvinism)  had  prepared  the  way, 
on  their  part,  for  the  reunion. 

That  such  a  large  proportion  of  the  Cumberland 
churches  were  in  the  country  and  so  many  of  them 
necessarily  weak  financially  and  in  numbers,  was  to 
many  a  welcome  fact,  because  from  them  come  the 
most  of  our  ministers,  and  in  them  very  many  of  those 
who  afterwards  become  leading  and  most  efficient  of- 
ficers in  the  larger  churches,  find  the  opportunity  and 
necessity  of  learning  church  work  by  practice.  Also, 
if  the  country  churches  are  well  cared  for,  the  town 
churches  of  Avhich  they  are  the  feeders  will  take  care 
of  themselves;  neglect  of  the  outlying  districts  being 
a  suicidal  policy  for  any  Church,  as  well  as  disloyalty 
to  the  Master  and  a  lack  of  true  Christian  patriotism. 

The  earlier  appreciation  of  our  Cumberland  breth- 
ren of  both  the  Scripturalness  and  wisdom  of  utilizing 
the  talents  and  zeal  of  the  gentler  sex  for  more  leading 
and  public  service  than  was  customary  formerly,  is 
something  in  which  they  may  justly  take  pride. 


172  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

The  following"  is  a  list  of  the  Moderators  and  Stated 
Clerks  of  Platte  Presbytery : 

Moderators  of  Presbytery. 

July  1870 Wm.  H.  Gill. 

April  1871 J.  M.  Crawford. 

September  1871 Jno.  A.  Pinkerton. 

April  1872 M.  L.  Anderson. 

September  1872 Robt.  Cruikshank. 

April  1873 Duncan  McRuer. 

September  1873 Joel   Kennedy. 

April  1874 Jno.  H.  France. 

September  1874 John  Gillespie. 

April  1875 Jno.  S.  McClung. 

September  1875 Jno.  D.  Beard. 

April  1876 Duncan  McRuer. 

September  1876 Luther  Dodd. 

April  1877 Jno.  A.  Pinkerton. 

September  1877 Wm.  G.  Keady. 

April  1877 Geo.  A.  McKinlay. 

September  1878 Geo.  Miller. 

April  1879 Duncan  Brown. 

September  1879 F.  G.  Strang-e. 

April  1880 E.  B.  Sherwood. 

September  1880 A.  D.  Workman. 

April  1881 W.  C.  Smith. 

September  1881 Duncan  McRuer. 

April  1882. W.  D.  Patton. 

September  1882 T.  D.  Roberts. 

April  1883 Wm.  IMeyer. 

September  1883 B.  D.  Luther. 

April  1884 A.  B.  Goodale. 

September  1884 F.  E.  Thompson. 

April  1885 Carson  Reed. 

August         1885 James  Reed. 

March  1886 E.  P.  Foster. 

August         1886 H.  M.  Rogers. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  173 

March  1887 Willis  Weaver. 

September  1887 W.  A.  Cravens. 

March  1888 Carson  Reed. 

September  1888 James  Kirkwood. 

March  1889 W.  A.  Cravens. 

September  1889 H.  M.  Sydenstriker. 

March  1890 S.  L.  McAfee. 

September  1890 W.  R.  McElroy. 

March  1891 T.  D.  Roberts. 

September  1891 A.  M.  Reynolds. 

March  1892 James  Reed. 

September  1892 C.  McCain. 

April  1893 IT.  A.  Sawyers. 

September  1893 E.  B.  Sherwood. 

April  1894 T.  D.  Roberts. 

September  1894 George  Miller. 

April  1895 John  Wilson. 

September  1895 S.  L.  McAfee. 

April  1896 Duncan  Brown. 

September  1896 E.  W.  Symonds. 

April  1897 v.  W.  McGlothlan. 

September  1897 J.  G.  Gilkerson. 

April  1898 Jas.  P.  Green. 

September  1898 Geo.  Miller. 

April  1899 A.  D.  Wolfe. 

September  1899 W.  A.  Cravens. 

April  1900 G.  H.  Williamson. 

September  1900 W.  E.  Caldwell. 

April  1901 E.  H.  Bull. 

September  1901 S.  M.  Ware. 

April       •      1902 J.  H.  Shields. 

September  1902 Duncan  Brown. 

April  1903 C.  P.  Blavnev. 

September  1903 (\  E.  Kircher. 

April  1904 W.  I.  Doole. 

September  1904 J.  H.  Hatfield. 


174  HISTORY  OF  TLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

•April  1905 H.  N.  Bullard. 

September  1905 Jno.  T.  Curtis. 

April  1906 James  McFarland. 

September  1906 Silas  Evans. 

April  1907 U.  G.  Schell. 

Stated  Clerks  of  Presbytery. 


July  1870. 

April  1880. 

April  1883. 

September  1890. 
September  1899. 


.  .Henry  Bullard. 
.  .  E.  B.  Sherwood. 
.  .T.  D.  Roberts. 
..W.  H.  Clark. 
..A.  W.  McGlothlan. 


By  the  action  of  the  General  Assembl}^  in  session 
at  Columbus,  0.,  May  23,  1907,  Platte  Presbyteiy  ceased 
at  10  A.  M.,  June  18,  1907,  to  have  an  ecclesiastical 
and  legal  existence.  Clay,  Platte  and  Ray  counties  vviro 
attached  to  Kansas  City  Presbytery ;  Grundy  and  Mer- 
cer, to  Kirksville;  Caldwell,  Carroll,  Daviess  and  Liv- 
ingston, to  McGee;  and  the  remaining  ten  counties 
constituted  St.  Joseph  Presbytery. 

Notices,  like  comparisons,  may  be  considered  "in- 
vidious," but  the  impossibility  of  noticing  all  of  the 
many  worthy  of  special  commendation  should  not  for- 
bid the  recognition  of  some  of  them. 


Something  should  be  said  of  Elder  William  K. 
Adams,  still  a  vigorous  worker.  Though  the  most  of 
his  work  has  been  done  in  St.  Joseph,  he  has  belonoed 
to  the  Presbytery  in  a  special  sense.  As  a  business  man 
he  has  long  held  a  high  position  as  head,  in  St.  Joseph, 
of  the  freight  department  of  the  Burlington  System, 
with  hundreds  of  men  under  his  control,  and  has  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  every  one.  But  he  stands  high- 
est as  a  most  consecrated  and  wise  Christian  Avorker. 
Indefatigably  active,  he  has  been  prominent  in  the  mis- 
sionary  enterprises  of  the   Westminster   Church,   es- 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  175 

pecially  as  an  acceptable  and  greatly  blessed  lay 
preacher.  Years  ago  some  of  his  friends  urged  him  to 
seek  ordination.  Consulting  his  pastor  he  was  told: 
"Multitudes  of  men  who  run  shy  of  an  ordained 
preacher  and  whom  I  cannot  reach,  will  listen  to  you. 
If  3^ou  are  ordained  they  will  soon  become  shy  of  you. ' ' 
He  saw  the  wisdom  of  the  suggestion  and  acted  ac- 
cordingly. "As  a  business  man  and  a  lay  preacher  of 
the  gospel,  he  exemplifies  the  possibility  of  happily 
combining  both." 


The  Nestor  of ,  Platte  Presbytery  (U.  S.  A.),  the 
beloved  pastor  for  over  forty  years  of  the  Westminster 
Church,  cannot  be  passed  by  entirely.  Full  of  loving 
sympathy  for  the  "common  people,"  winsomely  genial, 
and  deeply  spiritual,  his  life  has  been  a  power  and  a 
benediction  to  multitudes.  The  striking  fact,  that  after 
being  the  pastor  for  twenty-five  years  he  was  able  to 
"recollect  only  one  instance  wheu  the  Session,  after 
full  discussion,  voted  contrary  to  his  expressed  wish/' 
attests  both  his  tact  and  wisdom.  The  following  tri- 
butes are  from  men  qualified  to  judge: 

"The  Rev.  Henry  Bullard  has  exemplified  two  ele- 
ments of  character  which  spring  from  inherited  mould- 
ing— one,  a  sweet  Christian  spirit,  charity  and  gen- 
erosity; the  other,  the  inclination  to  succeed  by  indi- 
vidual initiative  in  vigorous  efforts  for  the  spread  of 
the  kingdom  of  God  and  for  civic  righteousness,  taking- 
his  stand  wherever  there  is  need  of  the  best  efforts  of 
men  of  ability,  persistency  and  high  character." 

"A  man  of  great  purity  of  character;  of  earnest 
devotion  to  his  sacred  calling ;  as  a  preacher  unusually 
well  read  in  current  events,  and  therefore  very  prac- 
tical in  his  pulpit  utterances — dealing  largely  with  mat- 
ters of  today.  Few  pasrtors  are  as  greatly  loved  by 
their  people,  this  because  he  is  so  approachable  at  all 
times  and  by  all  classes,  and  so  sympathetic  and  help- 
ful in  his  delightful  companionship.  Wliile  he  has 
never  considered  himself  a  revivalist  in  the  modern 


176  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

acceptation  of  that  word,  few  ministers  of  the  Evangel 
have  made  more  positive  and  lasting  impressions  for 
"ood  on  those  who  have  been  his  listeners." 


The  Rev.  John  A.  McAfee  was  for  fifteen  years  one 
of  the  most  prominent  and  influential  members  of  Platte 
Presbytery,  though  never  its  Moderator,  always  declin- 
ing such  honors.  His  active  mind,  though  intensely  oc- 
cupied with  his  work  as  President  of  Park  College, 
busied  itself  with  the  condition  of  the  churches,  and 
his  consuming  zeal  for  the  upbuilding  of  the  Master's 
kingdom,  and  his  high  ideals  of  Christian  service  made 
him  a  leader  in  every  advance  movement. 


As  Chairman  for  several  years  of  the  Presbyterv^ 's 
Permanent  Committee  on  Home  ^lissions,  Prof.  Samu^^l 
L.  McAfee  rendered  invaluable  service.  His  extensive 
acquaintance  in  the  ministry  peculiarly  fitted  him  to 
aid  in  securing  desirable  supplies  for  the  vacant 
churches.  His  Sabbaths  were  very  largely  given  to 
visiting  and  supplying  destitute  churches. 


Revs.  James  Reed  and  Thos.  D.  Roberts  stand  pro- 
eminent  in  giving  many  years  of  faithful,  self-denying 
service,  largely  among  the  feebler  and  thusi  more 
needy  churches.  The  former  has  been  in  IMissouri  since 
1870,  and  all  but  ten  years  of  the  time,  in  Platte  Pres- 
bytery. The  Avhole  ministerial  life  of  the  latter,  be- 
ginning in  April,  1876.  has  been  spent  in  Platte  Pres- 
bvtery. 


In  1865,  Rev.  Elisha  B.  Sherwood  came  to  this  sec- 
tion as  Presbyterial  Missionary.  A  stalwart  physical- 
ly, and  filled  with  unquenchable  zeal,  he  did  a  great 
work  in  Northern  JMissouri,  organizing  thirt^^-three 
Presbyterian  churches,  some  of  them  east  of  our  bounds, 
and  reaching  his  ninety-sixth  year.  The  details  of  his  life 
work  are  quite  fully  given  in  his  very  interesting  Auto- 
biography, ''Fifty  Years  on  the  Skirmish  Line." 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  177 

After  a  successful  pastorate  at  Lathrop,  Rev.  John 
Wilson  served  Presibytery  most  efficiently  as  Pastor-at- 
Larg-e  for  over  four  years.  He  not  only  supplied  the 
vacant  churches  as  far  as  possible,  assisting  the  feeble 
and  heartening-  the  discouraged,  but  looked  after  the 
property  interests  of  the  Presbytery,  arranging  for  the 
removal  of  one  building  and  the  sale  of  others.  He 
did  much  towards  bringing  the  weaker  churches  up  to 
self-support  and  greater  self-denying  activity. 


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178  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRE-SBYTERY. 


EDUCATIONAL  WORK. 

At  this  day  tiie  High  Schools  in  all  our  larger  towns 
have  greatly  reduced  the  demand  for  Academies  and 
Seminaries,  and  the  State  Universities  have  so  affected 
the  attendance  at  the  smaller  colleges  that  many  of 
them  have  been  forced  to  give  up.  But  even  a  passing 
glance  at  the  work  of  our  earlier  Presbyterian  min- 
isters, will  show  that  a  very  large  part  of  it  was  educa- 
tional. They  were  true  to  the  traditions  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Church  in  exalting  education  to  its  proper 
place.  Some  notice,  often  meager  and  painfully  in- 
definite, will  here  be  given  of  some  of  the  Presbyterian 
institutions  of  higher  learning,  present  and  past,  in  our 
territory. 


Avalon  College  was  taken  over  from  the  United 
Brethren  in  1888-9,  Rev.  Wm.  C.  McCune,  the  first 
president,  being  very  active  in  the  movement.  After 
several  years  of  struggle  it  w^as  taken  under  the  care 
of  Platte  Presbytery  as  an  academy  and  put  in  charge 
of  Rev.  Austin  D.  Wolfe.  This  institution  did  a  good 
work,  but  the  lack  of  a  financial  basis  finally  necessi- 
tated its  abandonment. 


The  Grand  River  College  (doubtless  only  an  acad- 
emy) four  or  five  miles  from  Trenton,  was  quite  a 
school  in  1851,  having  several  teachers,  two  of  whom 
were  Presbyterians.  In  1853  the  pastor  of  the  Trenton 
Presbyterian  Church  preached  there  one  Sabbath  each 
month.  So  we  feel  warranted  m  concluding  thai  it  was 
largely,  if  not  wholly,  a  Presbyterian  institution. 


Prof.  Anthony  Haynes  wrote  from  Excelsior 
Springs,  Aug.  31,'  1908:  ''My  school,  'Haynes  Acad- 
emy,' was  founded  by  me  in  1896  anri  continued  ten 
years.  It  was  a  Christian  school  and  a  great  body  of 
my  old  students  have  become  Christians.  The  school 
prepared  students  for  the  University.    My  old  s^tudents 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRE-SBYTERY.  179 

hold  places  of  influence  in  different  parts  of  the  United 
States.  I  owned  the  school  property.  Owing  to  bad 
health  I  have  been  compelled  to  give  up  my  school 
work." 


While  Park  College  is  non-sectarian,  it  is  a  distinct- 
ly Presbyterian  institution,  and  is  entitled  to  a  some- 
what extended  notice  here. 

At  least  as  early  as  in  1851,  the  Hon.  George  S. 
Park  had  in  mind  what  eventually  became  Park  Col- 
lege. Lexington  Presbytery,  then  in  session  at  Keats- 
ville  (now  Keytesville?)  took  the  following  action 
April  25,  1851 :  ' '  Resolved :  That  Presbytery  have  re- 
ceived with  high  gratification  from  Mr.  G.  S.  Park,  an 
elder  of  the  Presbyterian  Churcli  in  Parkville,  a  propo- 
sition for  establishing  a  school  of  high  order,  or  a 
college,  in  that  town,  to  be  placed  under  the  care  and 
patronage  of  this  Presbytery,  and  that  we  highly  ap- 
preciate the  liberality  and  enterprise  of  our  brother  in 
the  matter ;  Resolved,  that  a  committee  of  three  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  Moderator  to  mature  a  plan  for  an  in- 
stitution, and  for  receiving  into  proper  care  the  dona- 
tion proposed  by  the  said  G.  S.  Park."  The  whole 
matter  was  repeatedly  and  carefully  considered  by 
Presbytery,  which  on  May  3,  1853,  said;  "Whereas  the 
Presbyter}^  in  their  corporate  capacity  cannot  either  so 
rapidly  or  satisfactorily  carry  forward  this  enterprise 
as  a  single,  well  qualified  individual,  therefore  Re- 
solved: That  this  Presbytery  appreciate  the  noble  and 
philanthropic  motives  w^hich  prompted  Esq.  Park  to 
make  this  liberal  donation ;  that  they  return  to  him 
their  hearty  thanks  for  his  confidence  in  their  ability 
and  integrity;  and  that  he  saw  fit  to  confide  to  them 
the  organization  and  the  subsequent  control  of  the  in- 
stitution; Resolved,  2nd,  That  this  Presbytery  hereby 
return  to  Esq.  Park  his  magnificent  donation,  provided 
he  assume  all  the  responsibility  assumed  by  the  Trus- 
tees, hoping  and  praying  that  success  may  attend  his 
plans  and  exertions;  Resolved,  3rd,  The  Presbytery  also 
holds  itself  in  readiness  again  to  receive  under  its  care, 


180  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

the  contemplated  institution,  if  Esq.  Park  shall  choose, 
at  a  future  time,  again  to  commit  it  to  our  hands." 

The  disturbed  political  condition  of  this  special  sec- 
tion of  the  country  which  soon  followed  and  continued 
until,  durmg*  the  Civil  War,  Parkville  was  badly 
wrecked,  suspended  further  action  for  many  years. 
Then  Rev.  E.  B.  Sherwood  became  an  ally  with  Mr. 
Park  in  his  plans,  and  finally  brought  him  and  Rev. 
John  A.  McAfee  together.  The  result  was  the  estab- 
lishment of  an  institution  for  "The  Training  of  Chris- 
tian Workers,"  of  both  sexes  and  for  any  and  every 
line  of  Christian  service;  Mr.  Park  contributiaij  much 
financially,  and  Mr.  IMcAfee  much  towards  its  character 
and  success.  It  was  opened  in  1B75,  and  chartered  as 
Park  College  in  1879.  One  marked  feature  of  Park 
College  was  that  it  gave  a  large  place  to  the  study  of 
God's  Word,  which  every  student  was  expected  to  read 
through  in  course,  once  every  year.  The  cliarter  says : 
''There  shall  be  daily  Bible  readings  and  expositions.'' 
Every  student  was  required  to  attend  daily  worship  as 
well  as  the  regular  Sabbath  services,  including  the 
Sabbath  school.  All  who  yielded  themselves  to  the  re- 
ligious influences  thrown  around  them,  gained  a  Chris- 
tian experience,  unless  they  had  it  before  coming. 
Those  who  resisted  these  influences  did  not,  as  a  rule, 
remain  long.  None  were  employed  as  instructors  or 
helpers  who  were  not  in  sympathy  with  the  highest 
ideals  of  Christian  life. 

The  other  most  marked  distinctive  feature  of  Park 
College  is  the  ''Family"  arrangement.  Park  College 
is  the  outgrowth  of  "Park  College  Family,"  a  very 
peculiar  institution  (if  we  may  so  call  it),  which  is  so 
closely  connected  with  Dr.  John  A.  McAfee,  its  founder, 
that  it  can  best  be  understood  through  his  history.  His 
father's  crippled  flnancial  condition  in  consequence  of 
his  investments  in  IMarion  College  (in  sight  of  which 
Dr.  McAfee  was  born)  so  noted  in  its  time  as  an  in- 
tended self-supporting  industrial  institution,  compelled 
him  to  secure  a  full  classical  education,  bv  his  own  un- 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  181 

aided  efforts,  after  he  had  reached  his  majorit}^  That 
struggle  qualified  him  to  sympathize  with  the  many 
youth  financially  unahle  to  secure  an  education  and  he 
felt  called  of  God  to  give  his  life  to  opening  a  way 
for  such  to  obtain  a  college  education  and  training. 
He  gave  himself  to  teaching,  and  from  the  first  began 
to  carry  out  his  idea  by  taking  into  his  own  family 
and  giving  a  home  to  one  or  more  young  men,  for 
whom  he  could  find  something  to  do  which  would  ena- 
ble them  to  accept  the  help  given  without  forfeiting 
their  own  self-respect.  He  sought  to  induce  others  to 
aid  in  carrying  out  his  ideas,  with  but  limited  success, 
for  most  considered  them  visionary.  In  1870,  at  High- 
land, Kans.,  he  began  work  on  a  larger  scale,  gathering 
under  his  own  roof  about  thirty  young  people  for 
whom  he  provided  regular  work  of  some  kind.  He 
there  perfected,  in  its  practical  details,  the  development 
of  the  ^'family"  idea.  This  was  the  reception  of  wor- 
thy but  poor  youth  of  both  sexes  into  all  the  privileges 
and  duties  of  a  Christian  home,  under  loving  watch- 
care  and  full  parental  control.  Financial  aid  from 
without  supplemented  what  they  could  do  towards 
their  own  self-support. 

In  1875  he  accepted  the  invitation  of  Hon.  George 
S.  Park  to  remove  his  "Family"  (later  known  a^ 
''Park  College  Family")  and  Avork  to  Parkville.  He 
and  his  life  companion  (specially  fitted  for,  and  called 
like  himself  to  this  work)  were  the  united  head  of  this 
"Family."  In  it  a  care  and  responsibility  for  each 
other's  welfare  in  all  respects,  were  inculcated  and 
practiced.  The  recent  expulsion  of  two  unworthy  men 
by  the  fellow  students  of  their  dormitory,  with  the 
knowledge  and  approval  of  the  President,  is  a  natural 
sequence  of  the  brotherly  responsibility  ever  laid  upon 
all,  and  acknowledged  by  the  majority.  As  the  insti- 
tution has  prospered,  the  occasion  and  oi^portunity  for 
every  kind  of  farm  work,  for  quarrying,  stone  cutting, 
building,  repairing,  printing,  baking  and  every  kind  of 
work  connected  with  and  needed  in  a  family  of  some 
hundreds,   have   arisen   and   made   "all-around"   men. 


18a  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Habits  of  industry^  punctuality  and  unflinching  fidel- 
ity regardless  of  weather  and  hardship,  have  been 
formed.  Ambition  to  excel  in  their  assigned  work,  and 
thus  to  be  intrusted  with  greater  responsibility,  is  cul- 
tivated. The  guying  which  the  student,  careless  or 
stupid  about  his  work,  receives  from  his  fellows,  is 
good  discipline.  Faithful  work  is  recognized  as  the 
highest  manliness. 

But  not  alone  or  chiefl.y  to  the  invaluable  discipline 
and  experience  gained  in  the  "Family" — the  Self -Help 
Department. — is  to  be  credited  the  recognized  fitness 
and  readiness  of  Park  College  graduates  for  self-deny- 
ing service.  President  McAfee's  high  ideals  of  conse- 
cration and  service,  backed  by  the  inspiration  which 
his  life  and  personal  influence  gave,  largely  reproduced 
in  them  his  own  character.  He  ever  insisted  that  the 
deepest  need,  not  any  possible  personal  considerations, 
was  the  loudest  call  to  the  Christian  worker.  The  sympa- 
thy ever  shown,  even  in  sharing  his  scanty  wardrobe 
with  destitute  students,  gave  his  teachings  a  firmer 
grip.  The  wonderful  growth  of  the  work  during  the 
fifteen  years  of  his  presidency  was  the  result  of  his  in- 
domitable energy  and  exhausting  self-denial.  Aft^- 
spending  the  day,  in  our  Eastern  cities,  in  the  most 
wearisome  and  trying  work  of  soliciting  for  a  greatly 
misunderstood  cause,  he  would  utilize  his  time  by  rid- 
ing all  night,  never  taking  a  sleeper,  because  of  the 
expense.  Thus  he  did  thirty  years'  work  in  fifteen 
years. 

Making  no  individual  mention  of  the  more  than  a 
hundred  alumni  Avho  have  done  more  or  less  of  ordi- 
nary home  mission  work,  often  helping  with  their  own 
hands  in  building  churches  and  manses,  and  often 
bringing  their  churches  up  to  self-support,  the  effec- 
tiveness of  the  religious  influence  in  Park  College  is 
partially  indicated  by  the  following  list  of  those  who 
have  engaged,  for  a  shorter  or  longer  period,  in  w^hat 
may  be  called  distinctively  "missionary"  work,  in  all 
lines  and   under   various  auspices — chiefly   the   Home 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRE-SBYTERY.  183 

and  Foreign  Boards  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  This 
includes  a  few  non-graduates.  The  exact  location  of 
the  workers  is  not  ^iven,  but  they  are  classified  accord- 
ing to  their  field;  as  those  among  our  American  High- 
landers in  the  Appalachian  regions;  among  the  Indians, 
Alaska  excepted;  among  the  Spanish-speaking  Ameri- 
cans; and  in  Mormondom.  Only  the  date  of  gradua- 
tion is  given. 

Africa. 

Frank  D.  P.  Hickman,  '92;  Wm.  M.  Dager,  '96; 
Sarah  Shaw-Da ger,  '97;  James  M.  Cunningham  and 
Minnie  M.  Murray-Cunningham,  '98 ;  Ethelbert  B.  Kalb- 
Weber,  '00 ;  Frank  0.  Emerson,  and  John  Wright,  '03 ; 
Una  Van  Alen-Wright,  '06;  and  Albert  G.  Adams. 

Alaska. 

Christiana  Baker-Taylor,  '88 ;  Nellie  M.  Taylor,  '96 ; 
Alex.  Pringle,  '97;  Eva  W.  Culp-Thompson,  John  L. 
jMyers,  M.  D.,  Mayme  Pr^^or- Waggoner,  David  Wag- 
goner, and  Florence  A.  Young-Myers,  '01 ;  Arch,  Law, 
02;  Fred  Chase  and  Christina  Duncan-Holt,  '04;  Leo- 
nora Dawson,  Maron  J.  MacLean  and  Laura  D.  Oakes- 
Brown,  05;  Fay  Langelier-Mitchell  and  Bertram  G. 
Mitchell,  '06;  and  Jeanette  H.  Wright,  '07. 

American-Spanish. 

Mary  B.  Higgins-Scott  and  Jennie  L.  Kipp-Carrico, 
'80 ;  Agnes  M.  Dilley-Wootan,  '88 ;  Jos.  J.  Perdomo,  '93 ; 
Henrietta  Caskey-Bible,  '00;  Laura  C.  Stapleton-Cole, 
'06;  Lou  Luthy-0 'Conner  and  Eva  Whissile-Stevenson. 

Appalachians. 

Sadie  V.  Armstrong-Bridges,  '91 ;  Nina  Robinson, 
'92;  Sarah  G.  Street-Heyd'enburk,  '96;  Ella  Whitte- 
more-Gamble,  '97;  Edith  Flagler,  M,  Luther  Girton, 
and  Bessie  Venard-Abbe,  '00;  Ina  F,  Deaderick.  '06; 
G.  Gracia  Beenev-Thomas  and  Rose  Lesslev-Beenev, 
'02 ;  Eliz.  B.  Blair-Flack,  '03 ;  Nellie  C.  Adams,  Marga- 
ret   Hughes-McClusky,    Alice    L.    Johnston,    Anna    L, 


184  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTE'RY. 

]\Iarsli-Deitz,  Dorcas  ]\I.  Robinson,  Ethel  J.  Stauffer- 
Phillips  and  Esther  V.  Walline,  '04;  Margarette  I.  Bal- 
lantyne-Calfee  and  John  E.  Calfee,  '05 ;  Zora  M.  Wilson- 
McManis,  '06 ;  Elsie  M.  Pollock,  '07 ;  Margaret  Wilson, 
'08 ;  and  Maude  Evans-Rich. 

Bohemia. 

John  Skerik,  '93. 

Bulgaria. 

Stephen  ]\Iomchiloft;   '93. 
Chili. 

Webster  E.  Browning;,  '91;  Hallie  Riley-Browning, 
'94 ;  Geo.  M.  McBride  and  Robert  W.  Newman,  '95 ; 
Martha  V.  Fulton-Gloeckner  and  Jesse  S.  Smith,  '00; 
Bessie  M.  Chambers-Smith  and  Alexia  Duncan-Coronel, 
'01 ;  and  Chas.  E.  Wells,  '03. 

"^  China. 

Lulu  H.  Boyd-Chalfant,  '86;  Eleanor  Chesnut,  M. 
D.  and  John  N.  Young,  '88;  E.  Elva  Fleming,  M.  D., 
'93 ;  Frank  W.  Bible,  Chas.  H.  Derr  and  Paul  P.  Paris, 
'Ol ;  Margaret  Paris,  '03  and  R.  Paul  Montgomeiy,  '04. 

Egypt. 

Annie  E.  Henderson-McParland,  '88. 

Freedmen. 

i\Iary  J.  Coffland-Berg,  '89 ;  and  INIaiy  McCarle,  '98. 

Hawaii. 

Robert  A.  Buchanan,  '01;  Ernest  H.  Wilson,  '02; 
Chas.  E.  Flack,  '04;  Plarlan  M.  Roberts,  '05;  Beatrice 
S.  Harbaugh  and  Pansy  G.  Roberts,  '08;  and  Jos.  F. 
Durao. 

India. 

Jessie  F.  Bell-Holt,  M.  D.,  '80;  W^alter  J.  Clark,  '88; 
Victoria  E.  McArthur,  M.  D.,  '94;  and  Caroline  R. 
Clark,  '95. 


H  [.STORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  185 

Indians. 

M.  Anna  Dolley-Wynkoop,  '81 ;  Jasper  J.  Crosswhite 
and  A.  Maude  Levagood-Brown,  '82;  Mary  A.  Lane 
and  Eliz.  J.  Templeton,  '88;  Clara  B.  Hastino^s-Hender- 
son,  Jeannie  ]\I.  IMcRuer-Mathes,  Agnes  L.  Reed-Pliter 
and  Harvey  M.  Shields,  89 ;  Prazier  8.  Ilerndon  and  El- 
sie M.  Prngh-Herndon,  '93;  Margaret  Morris-Edgar, 
'94;  Fred  V.  Richards,  '95  <  Alfred  C.  Edgar,  '97;  Chas. 
H.  Bierkemper,  '98 ;  Dorothy  B.  Venard,  •  '99 ;  Louise 
Hemdon  ^nd  Frank  McAfee,  '02;  Bertha  Darby-Wil- 
liamson, '03-;  Wilbur  J.  McManis,  '05;  Irene  Bernheim 
and  Harry  S.  Phillips,  '06;  Lloyd  C.  Goff,  '07;  Fern 
Dilley,  Florence  E.  Dilley,  Sophia  Ostermeier,  Wm.  L. 
Palmer,  Amanda  A.  Runquest  and  Aubrey  Seth  Thorn- 
ton. 

Japan. 

Mary  M.  Palmer-Gorbold,  '84;  Wm.  Y.  Jones,  '92; 
Harvey  Brokaw,  '93;  Isabella  M.  Ward,  01;  Sol  D. 
Light,  '08 ;  and  Olivia  B.  Forster-Brokaw. 

Korea. 

Marv  A.  Barrett,  Marg-aret  Best  and  Marv  E.  Hay- 
den-Gifford,  '88;  Susian  A.  Doty-Miller,  '89;' Helen  B. 
McAfee-McCune,  '92 ;  Emily  L.  Hartman-Johnson  and 
Walter  V.  Johnson,  '98 ;  Mary  R.  Armstrong,  '99 ;  Her- 
bert E.  Blair  and  Geo.  S.  McCune,  '01 ;  Walter  C.  Pur- 
viance,  M.  D.,  '02 ;  J.  Gordon  Holdcroft,  '03 ;  Katherine 
McCune  and  Cyril  Ross,  '06;  and  Lulu  Byram-Purvi- 
ance. 

Mexico. 

Effie  J.  ]\Iiller-Bryce,  '80;  Katherine  Herndon-Chea- 
vens,  '94. 

Mormondom. 

Mary  A.  Dayton-Krig'baum,  Chas.  J.  Godsman  and 
Anna  B.  Palmer,  '82 ;  Anna  P.  Handley-Keach  and  Lucy 
H.  Hindman-McAiee,  '84;  Aima  P.  Hulburd-McCuish 
and  Margie  Stoner-Best,  '87;  Vernie  E.  Jones-Merton 


186  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

and  Viola  E.  Wynne-Smith,  '88;  Lntie  A.  Christian- 
Thomas,  '89;  Emily  McCarty-Bertelsen,  '90;  F.  Frances 
Shimp-Moore,  '91 ;  Ida  D.  Stump-Gray,  '92 ;  A.  Augusta 
Elliott-Romig,  '95 ;  Chas.  F.  Romig,  '96 ;  Harriet  E.  El- 
liott and  Aurelia  Hansen-Liberiosi,  '97 ;  Lizzie  M.  Dienst- 
Ayres,  Charlotte  Kyle  and  Mae  Alice  Kyle,  '99 ;  Anna 
L.  Doggett,  Chas.  H.  Hamilton,  Edith  Hughes,  and 
Lottie  E.  Stevenson,  '00 ;  Hettie  D.  Hotchkin-Mclntyre, 
C.  Curtis  Mclntyre,  Ulna  Prv^or-Troxell  and  Kate  B. 
Taylor,  01;  Agnes  Lasley-Newell  and  Vergie  M.  Lasley, 
'03 ;  Filer  J.  Freeee  and  H.  Peter  Freece,  '04 ;  Alice  I. 
Reed,  '05 ;  J.  Mabel  Wells,  '07 ;  Minnie  M.  Huckett  and 
Edythe  Wells,  '08;  Mary  Bremner  and  Inza  R.  Mont- 
gomery, '09;  Grace  D.  Hamilton-Hamilton,  and  Eliza- 
beth Kyle. 

Persia. 

Margaret  A.  Demuth-Schermerhorn,  '92;  Edith  D. 
Lamme,   '00;  and  Geo.  D.  Prentice,   '09. 

Philippines. 

Roy  H.  Brown  and  Harry  L.  Finlay,  '00;  Nellie 
McA.  Pollock-Brown,  '01;  Theresa  M.  Kalb,  '03;  and 
Geo.  T.  Shoens. 

Porto  Rico. 

Elie  S.  Lheureux,  '91 ;  J.  Will  Harris  and  Eunice 
E.  White-Harris,  '02;  Effie  M.  Copeland,  A.  Victoria 
McArthur  and  Arnold  Smith,  '03;  Lydia  Lheureux, 
'05;  Cornelia  L.  White,  '09;  and  Frank  O.  Gloeckner. 

Siam. 

Mary  J.  Henderson-McClure  and  Hugh  Taylor,  '85 : 
Robert  Irwin  and  Dora  B.  Martin-Taylor,  '87 ;  Elsie  J. 
Bates-Kellett,  '89  ;  Annabelle  King-Briggs,  '92 ;  Howard 
L.  Cornell,  '97 ;  Harry  P.  Armstrong  and  Marion  B. 
Palmer,  '98;  May  E.  McClusky-Palmer,  '99;  Florence 
B.  Binghain-Crooks  and  Alice  Richards-Armstrong,  '00; 
Chas.  H.  Crooks,  :\[.  D.,  '01;  Lyle  J.  Beebe,  '04;  Eula 
Van  Vranken,  '05;  Albert  J.  CaldAyell,  Sylvia  M.  Har- 
baugh-Cal dwell   and  Edward  M.   Spilman,    '09. 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  187 

Ida  Grace  McClung,  '91,  valedictorian  of  her  class, 
would  have  been  in  this  list  if  her  life  had  been  spared. 

More  space  for  Park  College  cannot  reasonablj^  be 
asked,  so  we  must  not  speak  at  length  of  the  very  effi- 
cient President,  Lowell  M.  McAfee,  LL.  D. — eldest 
son  and  successor  of  the  first  President — or  of  the  able 
Faculty,  but  we  beg-  leave,  to  say  that  to  Prof.  Arthur 
L.  Wolfe,  more  than  to  any  other  man  now  living,  is 
owing  the  missionary  spirit  indicated  above.  For  many 
years  he  has  devoted  much  time  and  attention  to  Mis- 
sion Study  Glasses. 


The  Platte  School  (which  ranks  as  an  Academy)  at 
Edgerton,  was  established  by  Platte  Presbytery  (C.  P.) 
and  is  under  a  Board  of  nine  Trustees.  Its  high  aim  is 
"the  promulgation  of  Ghristian  learning."  It  has  a 
large  field  from  which  to  draw  students,  and  is  prosper- 
ing under  its  popular  President,  Rev.  D.  M.  Boyer. 


Of  Richmond  Gollege,  which  flourished  in  the  fifties, 
we  have  obtained  no  information  in  response  to  repeat- 
ed inquiries. 


In  Sept.,  1863,  Rev.  W.  O.  H.  Perry  opened  ''The 
Stew^artsville  Male  and  Female  Seminary,"  in  a  build- 
ing erected  by  Prof.  A.  E.  Summers  three  years  before. 
For  three  years  he  did  all  the  teaching  himself,  after 
which  additional  teachers  were  required.  The  school 
had  so  grown  in  numbers  and  popularity  that  in  the 
spring  of  1879  it  was  chartered,  with  Mr.  Perry  as 
President,  and  the  building  was  enlarged  to  more  than 
double  its  former  capacity.  Soon  after  a  dormitory  for 
young  men  was  erected,  also  a  two-story  building  for 
young  ladies,  in  which  one  of  the  professors  lived  and 
had  oversight  of  those  who  roomed  and  boarded  there. 
On  the  5th  of  Nov.,  1886,  the  main  building  (frame) 
was  totally  destroyed  by  fire.  It  was  never  rebuilt  but 
the  College  work  w^ent  on  till  the  next  Commencement, 
June,  1887. 


188  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

All  that. is  known  of  the  Sugar-tree  Grove  Academy 
is  found  on  page  6. 


"Tarkio  Valley  College  and  Normal  Institute"  was 
organized,  as  a  private  institution,  Aug.  30,  1883,  and 
was  chartered  as  Tarkio  College,  Jan.  31,  1885,  imder 
thirteen  Directors,  three  of  whom  are  chosen  by  the 
Board  itself  and  ten  by  the  Synods  of  Iowa  and  Nebras- 
ka. Rev.  Samuel  C.  Marshall,  D.  D.,  organized  the  insti- 
tution and  was  President  till  failure  of  health  compelled 
his  resignation  in  June,  1887.  Rev.  J.  A.  Thompson,  D. 
D.,  the  present  very  popular  and  successful  President, 
has  served  continuously  since  June,  1887. 

The  fact  that  the  College  is  an  institution  of  the 
United  Presbyterian  Church  gives  ample  assurance  of 
its  positive  Christian  character  and  high  aims.  From 
the  catalogue  of  1907,  we  learn  that  forty-one  of  its 
graduates  were  then  either  preaching  or  studying  theol- 
ogy, not  including  the  following  whose  fields  of  mis- 
sionary labor  are  given  below : 

Egypt. 

Minnehaha  Finney  and  Myrtle  Wilson,  '91;  Grace 
Gowdv-Finlev  and  Wm.  L.  McClenahan,  '92 ;  Robert  S. 
McClenahan,  '93;  Chas.  A.  Wilson,  '95;  Margaret  A. 
Bell,  '96 ;  Helen  J.  Ferrier,  '98 ;  Alda  B.  Atchison,  '01 ; 
Anna  B.  Cl*iswell,  Roberta  F.  Gibson  and  Mary  M. 
Pattison,  '04. 

India. 

Laurella  G.  Dickson,  Wm.  E.  Nicoll  and  Wm.  L. 
Porter,  '96 ;  Clara  Dickson-Nicoll,  '97 ;  Everett  E.  Camp- 
bell, '00;  and  John  A.  McArthur,  01. 

The  Soudan. 

Ralph  W.  Tidrick,  '06. 

Turkey. 

Laurence  S.  Moore,   '01. 

One  who  has  done  much  financially  for  Tarkio  Col- 
lege, says;  "Of  course  the  College  owes  its  existence 
and  its  prosperitv  to  the  liberalitv  of  Hon.  David  Ran- 
kin." 


HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  189 


MINISTERIAL  REGISTER. 

This  very  incomplete  ministerial  register  embraces 
not  only  members  of  the  Platte  Presbytery,  but  also 
others  for  whom  we  have  the  requisite  data.  Dr.  John 
B.  Hill's  Historv^  of  Kansas  City  Preshytery  and  Dr. 
Edgar  S.  Robinson's  ]\Iinisterial  Directory  have  been 
consulted  and  freely  used. 

In  these  brief  ministerial  sketches  no  notice  has,  in 
many  cases,  been  taken  of  the  distinction  between  pas- 
tor and  stated  supply.  The  permanent  pastoral  rela.tion 
is  certainly  the  ideal  one  and  to  be  desired,  but  how- 
ever just  the  stigma  resting  upon  the  latter  relation 
may  be  in  the  older  sections  of  the  country,  it  has  no 
proper  place  in  a  newly  settled  region.  And  in  many 
small  churches,  wherever  they  may  be  located,  the  per- 
sistent activity  of  one  disgruntled  individual  ensures 
the  speedy  departure  of  the  minister  in  charge.  It  is 
said  that  one  active  hornet  can  stampede  a  whole  camp- 
meeting.  Many  a  church  has  a  hornet  who  becomes 
effectively  active  as  soon  as  the  pastoral  relation  is 
established,  though  otherwise  likely  to  remain  quiet 
for  a  season.  Some  of  our  wisest,  most  talented  and 
consecrated  pioneers  never  sought  or  accepted  the  posi- 
tion of  installed  pastor  lest  it  might  hinder  their  work. 
They  preferred  the  position  of  missionary,  or  acting 
pastor.  The  Apostle  Paul  was  probably  never  installed 
over  a  church.  The  pastoral  relation  is  often  termed 
''ecclesiastical  marriage."  The  joint  pastorate  of  two 
churches  is  too  much  like  polygamy.  It  has  serious 
drawbacks — so  serious  that  its  desirability  in  any  case 
is  questionable.  If  an  ecclesiastical  courtship  of  at 
least  a  year  were  the  rule  there  would  be  fewer  eccle- 
siastical divorces.  Short  p'astorates  are  no  credit  to 
either  party  concerned.  The  ideal  and  incomparably 
vital  relation  of  a  minister  to  his  church  is  that  of 
Christian  service. 

Alderson,  Samuel  Baker;  b.  St.  Charles  Co.,  Mo.;  s. 
Benj.  A.  and  Mary  Lisle  Baker  (of  Va.)  ;  gr.  Blkb.  U., 


190  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

and  McCor.  T.  S. ;  lie.  Pby.  St.  Louis;  ord.  Pby.  Ebene- 
zer;  p.  Maysville,  Ky.  (11  yrs.)  ;  Washin^on  C.  H.,  O. 
(7  yrs.)  ;  Topeka,  Kans.  (5  yrs.)  ;  Portsmouth,  0.  (11 
yrs.)  ;  Tarkio,  Mo.,  '07—;  A.  M.  and  M.  D.  Central  U., 
Ky. ;  m.  ]Miss  Nannie  M.  Barber. 

Alexander,  Hugh  Payson;  b.  Aug.  15,  1869,  Cape 
Girardeau  Co.,  Mo. ;  s.  Rev.  C.  W.  and  Mary  Jane 
Mathesi;  gr.  Pk.  C.  '97,  and  Louisville  T.  S.,  '00;  lie. 
Pby.  Lafayette,  May  23,  '99;  ord.  Get.  29,  '01,  Pby. 
Palmyra ;  serv.  South  Fork,  New  Point,  Maitland  and 
Graham,  Mo.;  Pond  Creek,  Okla.,  '07 — ;  m.  June  C. 
Lord,  St.  Joseph,  Mo. 

Allen,  Oliver  Dillard;  b.  May  26,  1831,  Bourbon  Co., 
Ky. ;  s.  "Wright  and  Mary  Allen ;  st.  Chapel  Hill  C.  and 
under  Dr.  R.  D.  Morrow ;  lie.  Oct.  '51 ;  ord.  Apr.  '55, 
Pby.  Platte  (C.  P.)  ;  serv.  Clarinda  and  Hawleyville, 
la.;  Maywood  (10  yrs.),  Bethel  and  Round  Prairie, 
Kans.;  Barry,  Easton,  Watson,  Pleasant  View  (12  yrs.), 
Stewartsville  and  Mt.  Bethel,  Mo. 

Anderson,  Matthew  L. ;  b.  Serubgrass,  Pa. ;  s.  John 
and  Rebecca  Patterson;  gr.  W.  and  J.  C,  '60;  Wn.  T. 
S.,  '63;  lie.  Apr.  10,  '62,  Pby.  Butler;  ord.  Nov.  10,  '63, 
Pby.  Wooster;  serv.  Millersburg,  Holmesville  and  Or- 
ville,  0. ;  Rosendale,  Union,  Graham,  Albany  and 
Mound  City,  Mo.;  Norman,  Okla.,   '92—. 

Armstrong,  Cyrus  C. ;  b.  Fulton,  N.  Y. ;  gr.  State 
Normal,  Mo.;  Lane  T.  S.;  ord.  '91,  Pby.  Platte;  serv. 
Carroll  ton.  Mo.;  Kansas  City-Central,  Kans.;  Union 
Star,  Empire  Prairie,  Stanberry  and  Knox,  Mo. ;  inv. 
some  years;  m.  dan.  Logan  Maxwell,  St.  Joseph,  Mo. 

Armstrong,  Thomas  Chalmers ;  b.  Nov.  29,  1849,  Bel- 
mont Co.,  0. ;  s.  Rev.  R.  T.  and  Lydia  Heath;  gr.  Frank. 
C,  0.  '74 ;  St.  Wn.  and  Lane  T.  S. ;  lie.  Apr.  '76  and 
ord.  Apr.  '75,  Pby.  St.  Clairsville ;  serv.  Hamilton,  Mo. 
(3  yrs.)  ;  Taeoma-First,  AA^ash.  (4  yrs.)  ;  ]\Iiles  City, 
Mont. ;  La  Grande,  Ore. ;  Spokane-Centenarv  and 
Northport,  Wash.;  Avalon,  Mo.,  1900—;  m.  Oct."  7,  '80, 
Miss  Anna  M.  Smith,  Kidder,  Mo. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  191 

Asdale,  Wilson;  b.  Mar.  5,  1846,  County  Antrim, 
Ireland;  gr.  Wn.  U.  Pa.,   '73,  Wn.  T.  S.   '76;  lie.  Oet. 

3,  '76,  Pby.  Pittsburg-;  ord.  Sept.  12,  '78,  Pby.  Platte; 
serv.  Oallatin,  Mo. ;  Hays  City,  Kans. ;  Fairfax  and  Tip- 
ton, Ma. ;  Conrad  Grove  and  Arlington,  la. ;  Hebron, 
Mt.  Olivet  and  Murdocksville,  Pa. ;  Tipton,  Mo.,  1906—. 

Aughey,  John  H. ;  b.  Nev^  Hartford,  N.  Y. ;  gr. 
Frank.  C.  0.;  st.  theol.  Holly  Springs,  Miss.;  lie.  Oct. 

4,  '56,  Pby.  Cbickasaw;  ord.  April,  '61,  Pby.  Tombeck- 
bee;  serv.  Bethany,  Waterford,  Spring'  Creek,  French 
Camp,  Poplar  Creek  and  Nazareth,  Miss. ;  Princeton, 
Livonia,  Paoli,  Cambridge  City,  Leavenworth  and  Val- 
ley City,  Ind. ;  Oong-ress,  Chester  and  Wayne,  0.;  Char- 
iton, la.;  Mulhall,  Okla. ;  Weston,  Mo.;  H.  R.  some 
years;  au.  ''Iron  Furnace,"  ''Tupelo,"  "Spiritual 
Gems,"  and  "Ei^ht  Years'  Mission  Work  in  Oklahoma 
and  Indian  Territories." 

Barnes,  Edward  D. ;  b.  Mar.  28,  1880,  Minneapolis, 
Kans. ;  s.  H.  S.  and  Nettie  A.  Hoag;  gr.  Pk.  C.  '04,  Aub. 
T.  S.  '08 ;  lie.  and  ord.  June,  '08,  Pby.  Kansas  City ;  ss. 
Unionville,  Marceline,  Raymore  and  La  Grange,  p. 
Bethany,  Mo.,   '08—. 

Beard,  John  Dickey;  b.  May  31,  1829,  Rockbridge, 
Va. ;  s.  David  and  Mary  Bowen  McCampbell ;  st.  Frank. 
C.  O.,  theol.  under  Pby. ;  lie.  Mar.  22,  '61,  ord.  Apr.  18, 
'62,  Pby.  Des  Moines;  serv.  Paris,  Kingston,  Dawn  and 
Avalon,  (14  yrs.)  Mo.;  Elko,  Nev. ;  Vacaville  (6  yrs.) 
and  Santa  Marino,  Cal. ;  Bay  City,  Ore. ;  Pleasant  Val- 
ley, Shandon,  Cal.,  '92-5;  H.  R.  Pby.  San  Jose;  D.  D., 
1893 ;  m.   '60,  Miss  Mary  E.  McAdoo,  Hamilton,  Mo. 

Berry,  Franklin  P. ;  b.  Dover,  N.  J.;  gr.  Prin.  U. 
'72,  Un.  T.  S.  '75 ;  lie.  Apr.  14,  '75,  Pby.  Morris  and 
Orange ;  ord.  Oct.  3,  '77,  Pby.  Emporia ;  serv.  Walnut 
Valley,  New  Salem,  Wellington,  Kans. ;  Salem-First, 
Ore.;  Kansas  City-First,  (10  yrs.)  Kans.;  Maiyville, 
Mo.,  '94-99 ;  Cheyenne,  Wyo. ;  Los  Angeles-Highland 
Park  and  Olivet,  Cal.;  D.  D.,  1901. 


192  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Bible,  Frank  W. ;  b.  July  18,  1877,  Bellefonte,  Pa.; 
gv.  Pk.  C.  '01,  Anb.  T.  S.  '04;  lie.  May  14,  '03,  ord.  May 
18,  '04,  Pby.  Platte;  fm.  Hang  Chow,  China,  '04—;  m. 
Henrietta  Caskey,  Oregon,  Mo. 

Blair,  Herbert  E. ;  b.  Sept.  27,  1878,  Salina,  Kans. ; 
gT.  Pk.  C.  '01,  Prin.  T.  S.  '04;  lie.  and  ord.  May  18, 
'04,  Pby.  Platte ;  fm.  Syen  Chun,  Korea,  '04—. 

Blayney,  Chas.  P. ;  b.  Nov.  21,  1848,  Wheeling,  W. 
Va. ;  s.  Vincent  and  Marv  Donahey;  gr.  W.  and  J.  C. 
'69;  m  bus:.  '69-75;  gr.  Wn.  T.  S.  '78;  lie.  Sept.  26,  '77, 
Pby.  Washington;  ord.  Dec.  5,  '79,  Pby.  Osage;  serv. 
Olive  Branch  (6  yrs.),  Raymore,  Breckenridge,  New 
York  Settlement,  Milan,  Maitland,  New  Point,  Graham, 
New  Hampton,  Martinsville,  Kingston  and  Shelbyville, 
Mo.;  Com.  to  Gen.  Ass.  '84  and  '93;  m.  Oct.  4,  1881, 
Maggie  S.  Wallis,  Creighton,  Mo. 

Boyer,  Jacob  T.;  b.  Feb.  6,  1866,  Campbellsburg, 
Ky.;  gr.  Centre  C.  '90;  Prin.  T.  S.  '94;  ord.  June  25, 
'94,  Pby.  Louisville ;  serv.  Cowgill,  Polo,  Dawn,  Osceola, 
Vista,  Holden,  St.  Louis-Cook  Ave. 

Brown,  (James)  Duncan;  b.  June  6,  1844,  Hannibal, 
Mo. ;  s.  Cyrus  S.,  and  Julia  B.  Duncan ;  gr.  Pardee  C, 
'68,  Prin.'T.  S.  '71;  lie.  Apr.  '70,  Pby.  Palmyra;  ord. 
Apr.  23,  '72,  Pby.  Osage ;  serv.  Warsaw,  Sunnyside, 
Clarence,  Palmyra,  Mound  City,  Craig,  St.  Joseph-Third 
Street.,  Maicon,  Tarkio  (10  yrs.).  Mo.;  Phoenix,  Ariz.; 
Mexico  City,  Mex. ;  inv.  some  years ;  St.  Joseph-Brook- 
dale.  Mo. ;  prof.  Latin  Highland  IT.  Kans.,  '82-83,  and 
pres.  same,  '85-89;  pres.  Brookfield  C.  '89-91;  D.  D. 
Highland  U.  '84;  serv.  in  Third  Mo.  Un.  Vol.  Cavalry, 
'61-65;  m.  Miss  Mattie  Y.  Lewis,  Clarence,  Mo.,  Aug.  25. 
'74. 

Brown,  Henry  A. ;  b.  Jan.  13,  1865,  Covington,  Ky. ; 
s.  Herman  and  Charlotte  Braun;  gr.  Centre  C,  '91,  Dan- 
ville T.  S.  '94;  lie.  Apr.  12,  94;  ord.  May  8,  '95,  Pby. 
Ebenezer;  serv.  Cottageville-Ebenezer,  Ky.  (3  yrs.); 
Alexandria,  S.  D. ;  Firth,  Nebr. ;  Osceola,  Lowry  City, 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  193 

St.  Joseph-Faith,  New  Hampton  (3  yrs.),  Martinsville 
and  Akron,  Mo.  1906—;  m.  Miss  Edith  L.  Dietrich, 
Aberdeen,  O.,  June  4,  '95.     . 

Brown,  Roy  H. ;  b.  May  2,  1877,  Girard,  Kans. ;  s, 
James  and  Mercy  A.  Playter;  gr.  Pk.  C.  '00,  McC.  T.  S. 
'03 ;  lie.  and  ord.  Aug.  15,  '03,  Pby.  Platte ;  fm.  Legaspi, 
Albay,  P.  I.  1903—:  m.  June  3,  '03,  Miss  Nellie  McA. 
Pollock,  Chicago,  111. 

Brownlee,  Edmund  S. ;  b.  Washington,  Pa. ;  gr.  W. 
and  J.  C.  '86,  Wn.  T.  S.  '89;  lie.  Apr.  11,  '88,  Pby. 
Washington ;  ord.  Apr.  8,  '90,  Pby.  West  Virginia ;  serv. 
Ravenswood,  W.  Va. ;  Mt.  Vernon,  la. ;  Appleton  City, 
]Mo. :  Kansas  City-Grand  View  Park,  and  Council  Grove, 
Kans. ;  Trenton-Hodge,  Mo. 

Buchanan,  Robert  A.;  b.  Apr.  27,  1867,  Hensall,  On- 
tario; s.  Wm.  and  Jane  ^IcAUister ;  journeyman  carpen- 
ter six  and  a  half  vears;  gr.  Pk.  C.  '01,  Aub.  T.  S.  '04; 
lie.  May  14,  '03,  ord.  June  28,  '04,  Pby.  Platte  ;p.  Kohala 
Union  Church,  with  oversight  of  a  Japanese  and  also 
a  Chinese  mission  church,  '04-08;  m.  June  28,  '05, 
Minnie  Alice,  dau.Dr.  Daniel  Thorn,  Mardeen,  Turkey. 

Bull,  Edward  H. ;  b.  Mav  25,  1869,  Frankfort,  Ky. ; 
gr.  Centre  C.  '90,  McC.  T.  S.  '95 ;  ord.  June  18,  '95,  Pby. 
Duluth;  serv.  Tower  and  Ely,  Minn.;  Breckenridge, 
New  York  Settlement,  Albanv,  Knox,  ^It.  Zion,  Grant 
City,  Mo. ;  Hopkinsville,  Ky.,  'l905— . 

BuUard,  Henry;  b.  Sept.  23,  1829,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  s. 
Artemas  and  Anne  T.  Jones;  gr.  Amherst  C.  '60,  And- 
over  T.  S.  '63 ;  lie.  Jan.  '63,  Suffolk  South  Assoc. ;  ord. 
Oct.  1.  '63,  Council  at  Wayland,  Mass.;  p.  Evangelical 
Trinitarian  Ch.,  Wayland,* Mass.,  Oct.  1,  '63-68;  p.  St. 
Joseph-Westminster,  INIo.,  Mav  1,  '68 — ;  D.  D.  Westm. 
C.  (Mo.)  1883;  m.  Aug.  30,  '71,  Miss  Helen  Nelson. 
Walnut  Hills,  Cincinnati.  0. 

Bullard,  Henry  Nelson ;  b.  Nov.  19,  1874,  St.  Joseph, 
Mo. ;  s.  Henrv  and  Helen  Nelson ;  gr.  Amh.  C.  '96,  Aub. 
T.  S.    '02;  prof.  Greek  and  libr.  Park  C,   '96-99;  lie. 


194  HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

Aug.  17,  '00,  ord.  May  15,  '02,  Pby.  Platte ;  p.  INIound 
Citv,  Mo.  '02-06;  Kansas  City-Mellier  Place.  Mo., 
'07-08;  Per.  Clk.  Synod  of  Missouri,  '04-08;  Ph.  D. 
Kansas  City  U.,  1900;  m.  Aug.  20,  '02,  Miss  Marv  A. 
Payne,  Auburn,  N.  Y. ;  d.  Feb.  12,  '08. 

Byram,  Albert  Barnes;  b.  Hillgrove,  O. ;  gr.  Iowa  C, 
McC.  T.  S. ;  lie.  Apr.  '76,  Pby.  Chicago ;  ord.  Nov.  '77, 
Pby.  Alton ;  serv.  Greenville,  111. ;  Fremont,  Edgar,  Ong, 
Oak,  Craig,  Nebr. ;  Mound  City,  Mo. ;  Diagonal,  Platte 
Center,  Prairie  Star,  Williams,  la. ;  Kingston,  Mo. ; 
Firth  and  Hopewell,  Nebr. 

Caldwell,  Wm.  Elliott;  b.  July  1,  1857,  Elizabeth, 
Pa.;  s.  Wm.  and  Mary  E.  Douglass;  gr.  Woos.  U.  '79, 
Wn.  T.  S.  '82 ;  lie.  Apr.  '81,  Pby.  Pittsburg ;  ord.  July 
'82,  Pb}^  Des  Moines;  serv.  Marcus,  Liberty,  Paulina 
(7  yrs.),  Sanborn,  Livermore,  Irvington,  Luveme,  Al- 
lenton,  la, ;  New  Point,  Graham,  Maitland,  Brecken- 
ridge.  New  York  Settlement,  Marceline,  ]\Io. ;  m.  Nov. 
26,  '84.  Miss  Fannie  M.  Gates,  Canton,  Dak. 

Cardy,  Kersey  Jones;  b.  Wild  Rose,  Wis.;  s.  Rev 
John  Jones  Cardy;  st.  Huron  C. ;  gr.  Oma.  T.  S.  '04; 
lie.  April,  ord.  Sept.  14,  '04,  Pby.  Platte ;  serv.  King  City 
and  Hopkins,  Mo.;  m.  June  19,  '06,  Grace  Moulton, 
King  City,  Mo. 

Carson,  Wm. ;  b.  1846,  Tyrone  Co.,  Ireland;  s.  John 
H.  and  Marv  Wilson;  gr.  Blkb.  U.  '73,  (Lane  T.  S.  '74) 
Un.  T.  S.  '76;  ord.  Oct.  '77,  Pby.  Platte;  serv.  Coloma, 
j\Io. ;  Rising  Sun,  Ind. ;  Batavia,  Circleville  and  HaiTison 
(3  yrs.),  0.;  Knightstown,  Sunderland,  Ind.;  m.  Apr. 
11,  '78,  Miss  Jennie  Beeson,  Walnut  Hills,  Cincinnati, 
O. ;  au.  "Last  Days  of  Pompeii,"  "Bob  Ingersoll.'' 

Clark,  Walter  Halsey ;  b.  July  2, 1832,  Milton,  N.  Y. ; 
s.  Nathaniel  and  Hannah  Marsh;  gr.  Williams  C.  '54, 
Un.  T.  S.  '59  (Aub.  T.  S.  '56-8)  ;  ord.  June  30,  '59,  Pby. 
North  River;  fm.  Gaboon  and  Corisco,  West  Africa,  '59- 
69;  serv.  Ponca,  Elk  Valley,  Daily  Branch,  Nebr.; 
tea.  Silver  Ridge,  Nebr.,  '78-87;  helper  Pk.  C.  Family, 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  195 

Parkville,  Mo.,  '87 — ;  m.  Maria  M.  Jackson,  Corisco, 
W.  Africa,  Jan.  1,  '61. 

Clark,  Walter  Jackson;  b.  Jan.  31,  1862,  Milton,  N. 
Y.;  s.  Walter  H.  and  Maria  M.  Jackson;  gr.  Park  C. 
'88,  Un.  T.  S.  '91 ;  lie.  and  ord.  Apr.  20,  '93,  Pby.  Platte ; 
office  sec.  Student  Vol.  Movement,  '90-93 ;  fm.  Punjab 
Mission,  India,  '93 — ;  m.  July  12,  '93,  Nettie  Dunn, 
Hillsdale,  Mich. 

'  Cowan,  Hector  W.;  b.  July  12,  1863,  Hobart,  N.  Y. ; 
s.  Hector  and  Helena  Jane  E/ich ;  gr.  Prin.  U.  '88,  Prin. 
T.  S.,  '91;  lie  and  ord.  May,  '91,  Pby.  Otsego;  serv. 
Tina  and  St.  Joseph-Hope,  Mo.,  '91-94;  Spring  Hill, 
Gardner,  Stanley,  Kans. ;  Buffalo-Bethesda,  N.  Y. ;  tea. 
Potsdam,  N.  Y. ;  prof.  Physical  Culture  and  Chapel 
Director,  Kans.  U.  '94-97;  m.  June  30,  '92,  Annie  L. 
Smith,  Jamestown,  N.  Y. 

Crane,  James  Irwin;  b.  1873,  Brooklyn,  Mich.;  gr. 
Alma  C.  '98,  McC.  T.  S.  '01  (Aub.  T.  S.  ^'99)  ;  ord.  '01, 
Pby.  Owosso;  serv.  Troy  Grove,  111.  (3  yrsi.)  ;  Carrollton, 
Mo. ;  Hanover,  Mich. ;  m.  1900,  Miss  Ethel  Ryon,  Val- 
paraiso, Ind. 

Cravens,  Wm.  A.;  h.  Feb.  15,  1852,  Hanover,  Ind.; 
s.  John  C.  and  Nancy  Manaugh ;  gr.  Han.  C.  '75,  Danv. 
T.  S.  '78;  lie.  Apr.  27,  '77,  Pby.  Transylvania;  ord. 
Apr.  1,  '79,  Pby.  Ozark;  serv.  Salem,  Shiloh,  Modoc, 
Pleasant  Valley,  Knobnoster,  Albany,  Stanberry,  Cam- 
eron, Breckenridge,  New  York  Settlement,  Savannah 
(8yrs.),  Carrollton,  Mo.;  Chandler,  Wewoka  and  Wau- 
rika,  Okla. :  m.  Mar.  7,  '78,  Mrs.  Sallie  Farrand,  Dan- 
ville, Ky. 

CreightonJ  John;  b.  Dec.  22,  1864,  Douglastown,  N. 
B. ;  s.  David  and  Euphemia  Millar ;  gr.  Pk.  C.  '94,  McC. 
T.  S.  '97;  lie.  Sept.  13,  ord.  Sept,  24,  '97,  Pby.  Platte; 
serv.  Trenton-Hodge,  Mo.  (4  yrs.)  ;  York,  Nebr.  (6 
yrs.)  ;  Phoenix,  Ariz. ;  m.  Aug.  24,  '97,  Eliza  Delle  Cau- 
ghey,  Seville,  0. 

Currie,  John  A'.;  b.  Feb.  22,  1872,  Tarkio,  Mo.;  s. 
John  and  Isabella  Currie;  gr.  Tarkio  C.   '93,  McC.  T. 


196  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

S.  '97 ;  lie.  Apr.  21,  orcl.  Oct.  19,  '97,  Pby.  Platte ;  serv. 
Craig,  Mo. ;  Humboldt,  Nebr. ;  Ajctell  and  Clifton, 
Kans. ;  m.  June  2,  '97,  Miss  Minnie  Hogne,  Tarkio,  Mo. 

Curtis,  John  Tate;  b.  April  21,  1858,  London  Co., 
Tenn. ;  s.  Wm.  HaiTison  and  Nancy  Ann  Robinett ;  gr. 
Centre  C.  '92,  Danv.  T.  S.  '94;  lie.  Apr.  '93,  Pby.  Tran- 
sylvania; ord.  Sept.  '94,  Pby.  Ozark;  serv.  Harlin,  Ky. ; 
Salem,  Preston,  Irwin,  Jasper,  Mo. ;  Chanute,  Kans. ; 
Eureka  Springs,  Ark. ;  St.  Joseph-Oak  Grove,  Mo. ; 
Pawnee,  Okla. ;  m.  Dec.  21,  '95.  Mary  Huston  Couch- 
man,  Irwin,  Mo. 

Dager,  Wm.  M. ;  b.  1870,  Cincinnati,  0.;  ^.  Chas. 
Dager;  gr.  Pk.  C.  '96,  McC.  T.  S.,  '99;  lie.  and  ord.  May 
11,  '99;  Pby.  Platte;  fm.  Elat,  W.  Africa,  '99—;  m. 
Sarah  Shaw. 

Davies,  David  C. ;  b.  July  5,  1874,  Scranton,  Pa. ;  s. 
Benj.  D.  and  Marv  Jones;  gr.  Ham.  C,  '99,  Aub.  T.  S. 
'04 ;  lie.  May  '03,  Pby.  Utica ;  ord.  Sept.  5,  '05,  Pby. 
Platte;  serv.  Lathrop,  Callatin,  Bethel,  Mo.;  Glovers- 
ville,  Mechanicsville,  N.  Y. ;  libr.  Park  College,  '99-01 ; 
m.  Nov.  15,  '04,  Miss  Bertha  L.  Farley,  Forestport,  N.  Y. 

Derr,  Chas.  H. ;  b.  Nov.  16,  1877,  Chicago,  111. ;  gr. 
Pk.  C,  '01,  McC.  T.  S.  '04;  lie.  May  14,  '03,  ord  Apr.  13, 
'04,  Pby.  Platte ;  fm.  Chen  Chow,  China,  '04—. 

Dinsmore,  Francis  B. ;  b.  Apr.  22,  1817,  Greene  Co., 
0. ;  s.  Moses  and  Irene  Braddock;  gr.  Wash.  C,  43, 
Prin.  T.  S.,  '47;  lie.  Apr.. 22,  '47,  Pby.  Washington;  ord. 
June,  '49,  Pby.  Iowa;  serv.  Mt.  Pleasant,  Trenton  and 
Unity  (5  yrs.),  la.;  Pisgah,  Long  Branch,  Mo.;  prof. 
Latin,  Des*^  Moines  College,  '52-53 ;  m.  Jan.  3,  '47,  Jane 
Patterson,  West  Alexander,  Pa.;  d.  Feb.  21,  '04,  Hop- 
kins, Mo. 

Doole,  Wm.  Irenaeus ;  b.  Beech  Springs,  0. ;  s.  Wm. 
Speer  and  Annie  Campbell;  gr.  ]\Ionm.  C,  '79,  McC.  T. 
S.  '82;  lie.  Mar.,  '82,  ord.  Sept.,  '82,  Pby.  Peoria;  serv. 
Conrad,  la. ;  Craig,  Nebr. ;  Wichita-Oak  St.,  Horton 
(9  yrs.),  Kans.;  Hamilton,  Mo.;  Adams,  Nebr.;  m.  May 
18,'  '92,  Miss  Annie  Pollock,  Blair,  Nebr. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  197 

Dougherty,  Mark  Rufus;  b.  Nov.,  19,  '59,  Edmond- 
ton,  Ky. ;  gr.  Odessa  C.  '89,  Cumb.  T.  S.  '91 ;  lie.  Oct.,  o, 
'87,  Pby.  Lexington;  ord.  Oct.  5,  '90,  Pby.  McMinns- 
ville ;  serv.  Colorado  City,  Pilot  Point,  Tex. ;  Salem, 
Otterville,  Gallatin,  Prairie  Valley,  Hopewell,  Center- 
view,  Freeman,  Mo. ;  m.  Miss  Parma  Wash,  Sept.  30,  '91. 

Duff,  Guv  B. ;  b.  Nov.  6,  '90,  Stickleyville,  Va. ;  s. 
Wm.  P.  and  Eliza  B.  Newland;  gr.  King.  C.  '00,  Ky.  T. 
S.  '04;  lie.  July  6,  ord.  Sept.  14,  '04,  Pby.  Upper  Mis- 
souri ;  serv.  Morton-Hardin,  Montgomery  City,  Mo. ;  m. 
May  20,  '06,  Miss  Stella  Shepherd,  Hardin,  Mo. 

Duncan,  John ;  b.  Aug.  30,  '75,  Perham,  Minn. ;  s. 
James  S.  and  Sara  Wallace ;  gr.  Pk.  C.  '02,  McC.  T.  S. 
'05 ;  lie.  and  ord.  Apr.  12,  '05,  Pby.  Platte ;  serv.  Poto- 
mac, Mont. ;  Fairfax,  Rockport,  Craig,  Mo. ;  m.  June 
29,  '05,  Miss  Eliz.  T.  Bailey,  Parkville,  Mo. 

Edwards,  Chas.  E. ;  b.  Philadelphia,  Pa. ;  gr.  Han.  C. 
'79;  lie.  Apr.,  '83,  Pby.  Pittsburg;  ord.  Nov.  3,  '85,  Pby. 
Northumberland;  p.  Mifflinburg  (3  yrs.),  Port  Alle- 
gheny, Sharpsville,  Charleroi,  Shenandoah  (4  3^rs.),  Pa. ; 
Lathrop.  Mo. ;  B.  A.  Centre  C.  '79 ;  M.  A.  Han.  C.  '82. 

Emerson,  Frank  0. ;  b.  July  10,  1876,  Pierce,  Nebr. ; 
s.  Asa  and  Sarah  Jones;  gr.  Pk.  C,  '03,  Aub.  T.  S.,  '06; 
ord.  May,  '06,  Pby.  Cayuga;  fm.  Batanga,  W.  Africa. 
'06 — ;  m.  June  9,  '06,  Alta  Almyra  Kimberly. 

Eppler,  Henry;  b.  Dec.  6,  1808,  Sevierville,  Tenn. ;  s. 
Jonathan  and  Elsie  Thomas ;  st.  Richmond  C.  and  under 
Rev.  D'aniel  Patton;  ev.,  tea.-,  farmer — self-supporting 
home  my.  in  Clay  and  Andrew  Counties,  Mo. ;  m.  Eliza- 
beth Clark,  Clay  Co.,  Mo. ;  d.  Oct.  1,  '88,  Flag  Springs, 
Mo. 

Evans,  Silas;  b.  Feb.  12,  1876,  Scranton,  Pa. ;  s.  Row- 
land Hill  and  Mary  Alban;  gr.  Ripon  C.  '98,  Prin.  T.  S. 
'01;  lie.  Apr.,  '00,  Pby.  New  Brunswick ;  ord.  Sept.,  '01. 
Pby.  Hastings;  ss.  Giltner,  as.  p.  Hastings,  Nebr.,  '01-03 ; 
ss.  and  p.  Parkville,  Mo.,  '03-09  ;prof.  Philosophy,  Hast- 
ings, C,    '01-03;  prof.  Mental  and  IMoral  Philosophy, 


198  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

Park  C,  '03-09;  prof.  Hebrew  and  Hellenistic  Greek, 
Wisconsin  U.,  '09—;  m.  Aug.  15,  '06,  Miss  Nellie  B. 
McAfee,  McAfee,  Ky. 

Farrand,  Edward  S.;  b.  Jan.  9,  1861,  Garrard  Co., 
Ky.;  s.  Chas.  E.  Farrand;  gr.  Centre  C,  '85,  Wn.  T.  S., 
'88;  lie.  May,  '87,  Pby.  Transylvania;  ord.  June,  '88, 
Pby.  Pittsburg ;  serv.  Pittsburg-Mt.  Washington,  Pa. ; 
Topeka-Westminster,  Kans. ;  Los  Angeles-Boyle 
Heights,  Cal. ;  Cameron,  Stanberry,  Mo. ;  Ponca  City, 
Kingfisher,  Okla.,  '05 — ;  m.  Emma  Dodge,  Kingston, 
Mo.,   '89 ;  Kate  Foy,  Cameron,  Mo.,   '02. 

Fetterolf,  John  Franklin;  b.  Kalamazoo,  Mich.;  s. 
John  and  Margaret  Kern;  gr.  Pk.  C.  '93,  MeC.  T.S.,  '96: 
ord.  Oct.  ,  '96,  Pby.  Platte;  serv.  Kingston,  Mirabile, 
Mo. ;  Wilmington,  Macon,  Assumption,  111. ;  Chillicothe, 
Mo.  1906—. 

Flow,  John  Eldred;  b.  Nov.  14,  1874,  Mecklenburg 
Co.,  N.  C. ;  s.  Robert  Hall  and  Marv  Jane  Alexander ; 
gr.  Davidson  C.  '00,  Un.  T.  S.  Va.  '03;  lie.  May  20,  '03, 
Pby.  Mecklenburg;  ord.  Oct.  15,  03,  Pby.  Upper  Mis- 
souri ;  p.  Bethel,  St.  Charles,  Mo. ;  S.  C.  Pby.  Upper  Mis- 
souri ;  m.  Dec.  27,  '05,  ]\Iiss  Lula  Wharton,  Lawson,  Mo. 

Foy,  John;  b.  May  9,  1840,  Guernsey  Co.,  0.;  s.  Dan- 
iel and  Anna  Warner ;  gr.  Musk.  C,  '66,  Wn.  T.  S.  '69 ; 
lie.  '68',  ord.  '69,  Pby  Zanesville ;  serv.  W.  Carlisle,  Mar- 
tinshurg,  0. ;  Salem,  Nebr. ;  Cameron,  Greenfield,  Mo. ; 
Titusvile,  Fla.  (where  he  gathered  and  built  up  a  flour- 
ishing church)  :  ev.  and  inv.  in.  0. ;  m.  Miss  Hattie 
Davis;  d.  Jan.  5,  '03,  Otsego,  0. 

France,  Joseph  H. ;  b.  Washington,  D.  C. ;  gr.  Colgate 
U. ;  St.  theol.  William  Jewell  C. ;  lie.  Apr.  21,  '71,  Pby. 
Osage ;  ord.  Oct.  10,  '71,  Pby.  Platte ;  hm.  Lathrop,  Cam- 
eron, Osborn,  ]\Io. ;  p.  Kalamazoo,  Mich.  (3  yrs.)  ;  Low- 
ville  (7  yrs.)  Canandaigua  (8  yrs.),  Johnstown  (9  yrs.), 
Naples,  N.  Y. ;  D.  D.  '83,  Colgate  U. 

Froman,  James;  b.  Nov.  3,  1850.  Clinton  Co.,  Mo.; 
s.  Lorenzo  J.  and  Cecil  G.  Gist;  st.  Stewartsville  C, 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTE'RY.  199 

Lebanon  T.  S. ;  lie.  Aug.,  75,  ord.  Aug.,  '78,  Pby.  Platte 
(C.  P.)  ;  serv.  West  Fork,  Barry,  Shady  Grove,  Bethle- 
hem, Bethany,  King  City,  Union  Star,  Mt.  Zion,  Prather- 
ville,  Mo.;  Mt.  Bethel,  Kans. ;  m.  Sept.  10,  '89,  Miss 
Ella  Adkins,  Linkville,  Mo. 

Gauss,  Oscar  W. ;  b.  Mar.  28,  1842,  Glasgow,  Mo. ;  gr. 
(M.  A.)  Wash.  U.  '63,  (M.  D.)  St.  Louis  Med.  C,  '65; 
St.  theol.  Westm.  C. ;  lie.  Pby.  Missouri,  ord.Pby.  Potosi, 
'71;  ss.  Jackson,  Pleasant  Valley ;  p.  Cape  Girardeau, 
'73-5;  Boonville,  '75-84;  ss.  Memphis,  '84-5;  p.  Jeffer- 
son City,  '85-8 ;  ch.  Missouri  Pen.,  '88-92 ;  p.  Plattsburg, 
'92-7 ;  cm.  Kansas  City,  '97-03 ;  hm.  in  Ozarks,  '03 ;  org. 
ch.  Arvada,  Colo.,  July,  '04  and  ss.  '04-06;  Nunn,  Colo., 
'06—;  S.  C.  Pby.  Upper  Missouri,  '93-02. 

Gillespie,  John;  b.  Oct.  8,  1814,  Ballibay,  Ireland; 
s.  Isaac  and  Jane  Boj^d;  gr.  Belfast  C,  '41;  hm.  south 
of  Ireland;  serv.  Franklinton,  Eng.  (7  yrs.)  ;  ag.  Ffeed- 
man's  Board;  ss.  Gallatin  and  Bethel,  Mo.;  m.  Mary 
Breakey,  Co.  Monaghan,  Ire.;  d.  Sept.  8,  '77,  Gallatin, 
Mo. 

Gillette,  John  M..;  b.  Nodaway  Co.,  Mo.;  s.  Wm  W. 
and  Jane  Kadford;  gr.  Pk.  C,  '92,  Prin.  T.  S.,  '95;  ord. 
May  21,  '95,  Pby.  Platte ;  ss.  Dodge  City,  Kans. ;  libr. 
Normal  C,  Springfield,  Mass. ;  prin.  Chadron  Acad., 
Nebr. ;  pres.  Female  Acad.,  Jacksonville,  111. ;  prof.  His- 
tory and  Social  Science,  State  Normal,  Valley  City, 
N.  "d.  ;  prof.  Grand  Forks,  N.  D. ;  Ph.  D.,  '98,  Chicago 
T.  S.,  and  '01,  Chicago  U. ;  m.  Sept.  4,  '01,  Margaret 
Carolyn  Morgan,  Chadron,  Nebr. 

Goodale,  Alvin  B. ;  b.  May  22,  1829,  Potsdam,  N.  Y 
s.  Solomon  and  Fanny  Bauister ;  gr.  Amh.  C,  '58,  Union 
T.  S..  '60,  (M.  D.),  N.  Y.  Med.  C,  '60;  tord.  Feb.  5,  '60 
Third  Pby.  N.  Y.  City ;  fm.  Marash,  Turkey,  '60-5 ;  ss 
Belle  Plaine,  Kans.,  '65-7;  pres.  Parsons  C,  '68-70:  p 
Marshalltown,  Cedar  Falls,  Wyoming,  la.;  Trenton 
Kingston,  Mo. ;  Baldwin,  Kans.,  '88-93 ;  res.  Pomona 
Cal.,  '93-07;  m.  Jan.  10,  '60,  Marv  Linslev,  Millville! 
N.  Y. ;  d.  Jan.  9,  '07. 


200  HISTORY    OF   FLATTE    PRE-SBYTERY. 

Grossman,  Francis  W. ;  b.  Jan.  22,  1858,  Louisville, 
Ky. ;  s.  Franz  and  Anna  Buschs ;  gr.  Centre  C,  '85, 
McC.  T.  S.,  '89;  lie.  and  ord.,  '87,  Pby.  Louisville;  ss. 
Leavenvrorth,  Ind. ;  Cloverport,  K}^ ;  cm.  Dallas,  Tex. ; 
p.  Villisca,  la. ;  p.  m.  Pby.  Coming ;  p.  e.  King  City  and 
Albany,  Mo. ;  p.  m.  Pby. Winona ;  Pres.  Lenox  0. ;  p. 
New  Albany,  Ind. ;  D.  D.,  1905 ;  m.  July  21,  '87,  Miss 
Nellie  Lucas,  Louisville,  Ky. 

Hall-Quest,  Alfred  Lawrence ;  b.  May  13,  1879,  N.  Y. 
City ;  s.  Chas.  A.  and  Mary  Louise  Lantz ;  gr.  Augustine, 
'00,  (p.  gr.  Prin.  U.,  '02),  Prin.  T.  S.,  '03;  lie.  '00,  ord. 
'03,  Pby.  Brooklyn ;  as.  p.  N.  Y.  City-Church  Covenant ; 
p.  Black  Duck,  Minn. ;  St.  Joseph-Third  St.,  Mo. ;  M.  A., 
Princeton  U. ;  m.  Aug.  26,  '08,  Shirley  I..  Knox. 

Hardin,  Stewart  Sandford;  b.  Nov.  16,  1839,  Henry 
Co.,  Ky.;  ord.  '68,  Bishop  Kavanaugh  (M.E.  Ch.  S.)  ; 
serv.  Prairie  Valley,  Hopewell,  Grand  River,  New  Hope, 
Lock  Spring,  Macedonia,  New  Providence,  Chula,  Mo. 

Hamilton,  Chas.  H. ;  b.  Nov.  4,  1871,  Pittsburg,  Pa. ; 
s.  A.  J.  and  Martha  L.  Slade;  gr.  Pk.  C,  '00,  Wn.  T.  S., 
'03;  lie.  Oct.,  '02.  ord.  May  7,  '03,  Pby.  Pittsburg;  hm. 
Smithfield  (5  yrs.),  Mt.  Pleasant,  Utah;  m.  May  21,  '03, 
Grace  D.  Hamilton,  Parkville,  Mo. 

Hanna,  Jay  C;  b.  Apr.  19,  1863,  Savannah,  O.:  s. 
T.  Wilson  and  Amanda  Gault;  gr.  Woos.  U.,  '88,  Prin. 
T.  S.,  '91;  ord.  July  14,  '91,  Pby.  Ozark;  serv.  Ash 
Grove,  Cave  Springs,  Willard,  King  City,  Albany,  Cam- 
eron, Mo.;  Maron,  111.;  Purcell,  Pond  Creek,  Okla.; 
Osceola,  Mo.;  Forest,  O. ;  m.  June  19,  '95,  Belle  Van 
der  Veer,  King  City,  Mo. 

Harold,  Wm.  Seborn;  b.  July  30,  1872,  Greeneville, 
Tenn. ;  s.  Wm.  C.  and  Martha  Willis;  gr.  Gr.  and  Tus. 
C,  '98;  lie.  '96,  and  ord.  '98,  Pby.  East  Tennessee;  serv. 
Ottawa,  Newmansville,  Tenn.;  Batesville,  Bethesda, 
Centerburg,  O.;  St.  Joseph-Brookdale,  Memphis,  Mo.; 
Wvthe.  111. ;  m.  July  20,  '99,  Columbus,  0. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  201 

Hatfield,  John  H. ;  b.  Ridgely,  Mo.;  s.  Geo.  E.  and 
Minerva  Mefford;  gr.  pk.  c.,  '92,  MeC.  T.  S.,  '95;  lie. 
May,  '95,  Fby.  Platte;  ord.  June,  '95,  Pby.  Freeport; 
ss.  Salina,  Baxter  Springs,  Kans. ;  cm.  Springfield,  Mo. ; 
Oronoco,  Minn. ;  p.  Harvard,  Pontiac,  111. ;  Tarkio,  Mo. ; 
Columbns-Hoge  Memorial,  O.,  '07—;  m.  June  18,  '95, 
]\Ii.s.s  Adah  Marie  Aniel,  Loveland,  0.,  '07 — . 

Hayes,  Chas.  Edward;  b.  May  13,  1860,  Buchanan 
Co.,  Mo.;  s.  Rev.  Leander  F.  and  Susan  C.  McKee;  gr. 
Amity  C,  '85 ;  st.  Lebanon  T.  S. ;  lie.  '90  and  ord.  Apr. 
'92,  Pby.  Platte;  serv.  Albany,  McFall,  Round  Grove, 
Mt.  Zion,  Agency,  Mo.;  Danvers,  111.  (5  yrs.) ;  State 
Supt.  Ch.  Extension  in  111.,  '00-07;  Supt.  Home  Mis- 
sions, '07—;  D.  D.,  '07,  Amity  C. ;  m.  June  15,  '92,  Ida 
Smith,  Louisiana,  Mo. 

Haymaker,  Edward  Graham;  b.  Nov.  25,  1862,  New- 
lonsburg.  Pa. ;  gr.  W.  &  J.  C,  '85,  Wn.  T.  S.,  '09  (p. 
gr.,  '90-1);  p.  Midway,  Union,  Pa.;  Prin.  Oak  Hill 
Acad.,  Okla.,  '92-04;  tea.  Winona  (Ind.),  Acad.,  '04-6; 
]).  Easton,  Mo.,  '07—;  m.  Oct.  25,  '94,  Elizabeth  Willis. 

Henderson,  Arthur  W. ;  b.  Sept.  20,  1870,  Lebanon, 
Mo. ;  s.  W.  T.  and  Emily  Headlee ;  gr.  Cumb.  U.,  '97, 
Un.  T.  S.,  '98;  lie.  '96,  ord.  '97,  Pby.  Lebanon;  ed. 
Canyon  City  Times,  Colo.;  serv.  St.  Joseph-First  Cum- 
berland, Mo. 

Henderson,  John  T. ;  b.  Feb.  27, 1864,  Franklin,  Ind. ; 
s.  Isaac  and  Theresa  Thompson ;  gr.  Wab.  C,  '89,  McC. 
T.  S.,  '92;  ord.  June  14,  '92,  Pby.  Mankato;  p.  Pipe- 
stone-First,  Minn.,  '92-8;  ch.  Pk.  C,  and  cp.,  Parkville^ 
Mo.,  '98-00;  p.  Janesville,  Wis.,  '00-05;  Minneapolis- 
Merriam  Park,  Minn.,  '05—;  m.  April  28,  '92,  Sarah 
Banford,  Chicago,  111. 

Hepburn,  T.  Henry;  b.  Nov.  3,  '72,  Hopkins,  Mo.; 
s.  James  L.  and  Maria  Jane  Robinson ;  gr.  Pk.  C,  '99, 
McC.  T.  S.,  '02 ;  lie.  and  ord.  June  5,  '02,  Pby.  Ozark ; 
ss.  Coon  Rapids,  la.,  three  summers;  p.  Monett-First, 
Mo.,  '02-05;  Aurora,  111.,  '05-08';  Chicago-Buena  Mem- 


202  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRE'SBYTERY. 

orial  '08 — ;  m.  May  7,  '02,  Isabelle  Speer,  Vandergrift, 
Pa. 

Herr,  Arthur  Bell;  b.  May  7,  1872,  Mifflinburg,  Pa.; 
s.  James  Edwin  and  Annetta  M.  Young;  gr.  Pk.  C,  '92, 
Aub.  T.  S.,  '95;  lie.  and  ord.  May  21,  '95,  Pby.  Platte; 
ss.  King  City  and  Albany,  Mo. ;  p.  Pottsgrove,  Pa.,  '98- 
04;  p.  Great  Bend,  Pa.,  '04—;  m.  June  11,  '03,  Mary 
Estelle  McWilliaius,  Mooresburg,  Pa. 

Hickman,  Frank  D.  P. ;  b.  Sept.  10,  1866,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa.;  gr.  Pk.  C,  '02,  Prin.  T.  S.,  '05;  ord.  May  21, 
'95,  Pby.  Platte;  fm.  Benito,  West  Africa,   '95—. 

Higgins,  Corydon  W. ;  b.  Jan.  18,  1822,  Worthing- 
ton,  Mass. ;  s.  Luther  and  Lydia  Ring ;  gr.  Wms.  C,  '50, 
Aub.  T.  S.,  '53;  ord.  '53,  Pby.  Rochester;  serv.  East 
Avon,  Spencer,  Newfield,  Big  Flats,  N.  Y. ;  Cottage 
Grove,  "Wis. ;  Osbom,  Mo. ;  org.  ch.  Beloit,  Kans. ;  inv. 
long  time;  m.  '53,  Harriet  W.  Chapin,  N.  Y.  City;  m. 
Dec.  23,  '75,  Marv  Eraser,  Parkville,  Mo. ;  d.  Aug.  21, 
1894,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

Hindman,  David  R. ;  b.  Allegheny  Co.,  Pa. ;  st.  theol. 
under  Rev.  J.  A.  Darrah;  lie.  '68,  ord.  '70,  Pby.  North 
Missouri;  serv.  Canton,  Monticello,  Williamstown, 
Greensburg,  Mo. ;  Seymour,  Allerton,  Promise  City, 
Lineville,  Tex. ;  Wilson,  Ft.  Harker,  McCune,  Osage, 
Kanopolis,  Miltonvale,  Clyde,  Philipsburg,  Long  Island, 
Bow  Creek,  Auburn,  Kans. ;  m.  Feb.  23,  '58,  Mar\'  M. 
Bohon,  New  Providence,  Mo.;  d.  Mar.  11,  '08,  Park- 
ville, Mo. 

Ilsley,  Wm.  Plenry ;  b.  April  25,  1844,  Montgomery, 
Co.,  111. ;  s.  Edward  and  Lucv  C.  L.  Stoddard;  gr.  Blkb. 
U.  and  Blkb.  T.  S.,  '73;lic.  April  12,  '73, Pby.  Alton;  ord. 
Oct.  8,  '73,  Pby.  Platte;  serv.  St.  Joseph-Third  St.,  Oak 
Grove,  Hopkins  (6  yrs.),  Barnard,  Mo.;  Lenox,  la.; 
Carlyle,  Elgin,  Macon,  111. ;  Grand  Junction,  Dana,  Leon, 
Wvoming,  la.,  '03—;  fin.  ag.  Coe  College,  '94-96;  A.  M., 
Blkb.  U.,  '93 ;  m.  Mar.  12,  '65,  Sarah  E.  Robb ;  m.  Oct.  21, 
'73,  :\[iss  Helen  H.  Smith,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  203 

Irvine,  Melville  B. ;  b.  Feb.  25,  1843,  Saline  Co.,  Mo. ; 
s.  Philander  Y.  and  Sarah  P.  Brown;  gr.  Westm.  C. 
'68;  St.  theol.  at  home;  lie.  '69,  Pby.  New  Lebanon; 
ord.  Mar.  6.  '71,  Pby.  Leavenworth;  itin.  m.  Mo.,  Kans. 
and  Nebr.,  '71-77;  serv.  Arrow  Rock,  Mo.;  Canyon 
City,  Colo.;  Marshall,  Roanoke,  Mt.  Olive,  Mo.;  Dan- 
ville, 111.;  Warrensburg-  (8  yrs.),  Carthage,  Mo.;  Tay- 
lorville.  111. ;  St.  Joseph-Cumberland,  Albany,  Mo. ;  Min- 
neapolis-House of  Faith,  Minn.  '08 — ;  7118  sermons^ 
257  funerals,  2004  professions,  1496  members  received ; 
m.  June  22,  '79,  Miss  Mary  E.  Woodward. 

Irwin,  Robert;  b.  Sept.  28,  1870,  Garafraxa,  Out; 
s.  Robert  H.  Irwin;  ^r.  Pk.  C.  '87,  McC.  T.  S.,  '90;  ord. 
April  10,  '90;  fm.  Laos,  Siam,  '90-06;  serv.  Friday 
Harbor,  Wash. ;  Braidwood,  111. 

Jones,  Wm.  Yates;  b.  1864,  Dunlap,  111.;  s.  Rev. 
Wm.  Jones;  gr.  Pk.  C.  '92,  McC.  T.  S.  '05;  lie.  and 
ord.  May  21,  '95,  Pby.  Platte;  fm.  Japan,  '95—;  m. 
]\Iiss  Mary  Brokaw,  Japan. 

Kircher,  Chas.  E. ;  b.  Germantown,  0. ;  gr.  Ohio  Nor- 
mal U..  '83  (A.  M.  '86),  Lane  T.  S.,  '91;  lie.  '90,  Pby. 
Cincinnati ;  ord.  '91,  Pby.  Whitewater ;  p.  Knightstown, 
'90-94,  Alexandria,  '94-97,  Muncie- Westminster,  Evans- 
ville,  Ind.;  Maryville,  '02-08,  Jefferson  City,  Mo.,  '08—. 

Kirkwood,  James;  b.  May  5,  1827,  Glasgow,  Scot- 
land; s.  Francis  and  Ag-nes  Ross;  st.  theol.  Rev.  John 
Scott,  London,  Can.;  ord.  Pby.  Kearney;  serv.  Osceola, 
Spring  Ranch,  Glenville,  Inland,  Nebr. ;  Norton,  Quene- 
mo,  Kans. ;  Tarkio,  Fairfax,  Gallatin,  Grant  City,  Mo. ; 
m.  June  14,  '52,  Jane  Gordon,  London,  Can. ;  d.  Feb. 
15,  '95,  Fairfax,  Mo. 

Knox,  John;  b.  Nov.  18,  1860,  Norristown,  Pa.;  s. 
Andrew  Jackson  and  Susanna  W.  Detwiler ;  gr.  Laf . 
C.  '85,  Prin.  T.  S.  '88;  lie.  '86,  Pby.  North  Philadel- 
phia; ord.  Oct.  18,  '88,  Pby.  Arizona;  serv.  Tombstone, 
Ariz.;  Trenton-Hod^e,  Mo.  (4  yrs.)  ;  Sayre,  Pa.;  Spen- 
cer (9  yrs.),  Painted  Post,  N.  Y.,  '08—;  m.  '87,  Eimice 
M.  Yale,  Honesdale,  Pa. 


204  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

Krotzer,  Marcus  E. ;  b.  June  22,  1867,  Rimersbur*;, 
Pa.;  s.  Samuel  and  Levina  Bartholomew;  gT.  Pk.  C. 
'90,  McC.  T.  S.  '93  (Lane,  '90-91)  ;  lie.  '92,  Pby.  Tope- 
ka;  ord.  June  13,  '93,  Pby.  Ft.  Dodge;  serv.  Manila, 
Manning,  Delmar,  la. ;  Craig,  Raymore,  ^lo. ;  Harvard, 
111.;  Ottumwa,  la.,  '03—;  m.  May  11,  '93,  Nona  Spur- 
ling,  Murdock,  O. ;  m.  Jan.  16,  '96,  Emma  Hartlieb, 
Cincinnati,  0. 

Leyda,  James,  E. ;  b.  Jan.  18,  1818,  Dunningsville, 
Pa.;  s.  Emery  and  Hannah  Wilson;  gr.  W.  and  J.  C. 
'74,  Wn.  T.  S.,  '77;  lie.  '77,  Pby.  Washington;  ord. 
'77,  Pby.  Clarion;  p.  Perry,  Worthville,  West  Glade 
Run,  Worthing-ton,  Pa.;  Ellsworth,  Kans.  (5  yrs.)  ; 
West  Plains  (6  yrs.),  Fairfax,  Rockport,  Mo.;  Jones- 
boro.  Ark.  (7  yrs.);  Monument,  Table  Rock,  Colo.; 
Cairo,  W.  Va. ;  m.  April  5,  '77,  Nannie  R.  Robinson, 
Allegheny  City,  Pa. 

Lonsdale,  Frank;  b.  Heslington,  Yorkshire,  Eng. ; 
St.  Dublin  U.  and  theol.  Rev.  E.  C.  Miller,  Hamilton, 
Can.;  ord.  Aug.  5,  '88,  Pby.  Platte;  p.  Hopkins  (4  yrs.), 
hm.  Barnard,  Quitman,  Morning  Star,  p.  St.  Joseph- 
Third  St.,  Mo.;  ss.  Golden,  Colo.;  pm.  Pby.  Denver; 
p.  Ft.  Collins-First,  Colo.  (3  yrs.)  :  Raton,  N.  Mex. ;  St. 
Louis,  Mo.  (9  yrs.)  ;  Collinsville,  III,  '08—. 

McAfee,  Cleland  Boyd;  b.  Sept.  25,  1866,  Ashley, 
Mo.;  s.  John  A.  and  Anna  W.  Bailev;  gr.  Pk.  C.  '84, 
Un.  T.  S.,  '88;  lie.  July  10,  '88.  ord.  Sept.  13,88,  Pby. 
Platte;  ss.,  as.  p.  and  p.  Parkville,  Mo.,  '88-01;  p.  Chi- 
cago-Forty-First St.,  '01-04;  Brooklyn-Lafavette  Ave., 
N.  Y.,  'Oi-;  prof.  Philosophy,  Park  C.  '89-01;  Ph.  D.-, 
'92,  Westm.  C. ;  D.  D.,  '99,  Pk.  C. ;  m.  Aug,  10,  '92,  Miss 
Hattie  L.  Brown,  Girard,  Kans. 

McAfee,  John  Armstrong;  b.  Dec.  12,  1831,  Marion 
Co.,  Mo.;  s.  Joseph  and  Priscilla  Ann  Armstrong;  gr. 
Westm.  C.  '59;  st.  theol.  in  his  own  studj^;  lie.  Sept. 
'65,  ord.  April,  '66,  Pby.  Palmyra ;  serv.  Ashley,  Louisi- 
ana, Mo. ;  Highland,  Kans. ;  Parkville,  Mo.,  '75-89 ;  prof. 
Synodical  C,  Fulton,  Mo.,   '59-60;  prin.  Watson  Sem., 


HISTORY    OF    PLATTE    PRESBYTERY.  305 

Ashley,  '60-67 ;  pres.  Pardee  C,  Louisiana,  '67-70 ;  pres. 
and  prof.  Greek,  Highland  U.,  '70-75;  pres.  Park  C, 
'75-90;  D.  D.  Westm.  C. ;  m.  Aug.  23,  '59,  Miss  Anna 
Waddell  Bailey,  Fulton,  Mo.;  d.  June  12,  '90,  Park- 
ville.  Mo. 

McAfee,  Lapsley  Armstrong;  b.  Mar.  31,  1864,  Ash- 
lev,  Mo.;  s.  John  A.  and  Anna  W.  Bailev;  gr.  Pk.  C. 
'82,  McC.  T.  S.,  '85;  lie.  July  10,  '88,  ord.'^Mar.  14,  '89, 
Pbv.  Platte;  p.  Parkville,  Mo.,  '89-98;  p.  Phoenix,  Ariz. 
'99-05:  p.  Berkeley,  Cal.,  '05—;  ch.  Park  C,  '85-98; 
steward  and  supt.  Park  College  Family,  85-89;  D.  D., 
'00,  High.  U.  and  '01,  Pk.  C. ;  m.  Aug.  17,  '87,  Ella 
Taylor,  Bloomington,  Nebr. 

McAfee,  Samuel  Lanty;  b.  May  13,  1841,  Emerson, 
Mo. ;  s.  Joseph  and  Priscilla  Ann  Armstrong ;  gr.  Pardee 
C.  '69,  McC.  T.  S.  '71;  lie.  May  14,  '69,  Pby.  North- 
east Missouri;  ord.  Dec.  17,  '71,  Pby.  Missouri  River; 
p.  Red  Oak,  la.,  '71-82;  Winnebago,  Minn.;  Malvern. 
la.,  '82-85 ;  prin.  Corning  Acad.,  la.,  '85-89 ;  prof.  Bibli- 
cal History  and  Practical  Christian  Training,  Park  C. 
'89—;  First  Lieut.  Third  Mo.  Vol.  Cavalry,  '62-65; 
A.  M.,  '72,  High.  U.,  D.  D.,  '97,  Parsons  C. ;  S.  C,  Pby. 
Council  Bluffs,  16  years;  Mod.  Syn.  Iowa  South,  '76; 
m.  April  19,  '71,  iMary  Esther  Poage,  Ashley,  Mo. 

McCammon,  Wm.  Albert:  b.  July  4,  1873,  Gentry- 
ville,  Mo. :  s.  Jonathan  P.  and  Margaret  Eliz.  Clark ; 
St.  Mo.  Val.  C.  2  years,  Cumb.  U.,  and  gr.  McC.  T.  S., 
'06;  ord.  Feb.  22,  '01,  Pby.  Platte  (C.  P.)  ;  serv.  Free- 
dom and  Mt.  Zion,  la. ;  Mt.  Moriah,  Salem,  St.  Joseph- 
Brookdale   (2  yrs.).  Mo.;  Benson,  Ariz.,   '08 — . 

McCain,  Cornelius;  b.  Sept.  28,  1824,  Lebanon,  0.; 
s,  Daniel  and  Magdalena  Voorhis;  gr.  Han.  C.  '51;  tea. 
Grand  River  C,  Trenton,  St.  Joseph,  Savannah,  Ore- 
gon, Mo.,  and  Iowa  and  Sac  Mission,  Kans.,  '51-57; 
lie.  '55,  Pby.  Upper  Missouri:  ord.  April,  '58,  Pby. 
Platte ;  hm.  Kans.  and  Nebr.  '57-61 ;  serv.  Forest  City 
and  Oregon,  Mo.  (2  yrs.)  ;  Washington,  Ind.  (3  yrs.) ; 
Albany,  ]\Io.   (2  yrs.)  ;  Hanover,  Monroe  and  Hunting- 


»06  HISTORY    OF   PLATTE    PRESBYTERY. 

ton  (4  yrs.),  Kentland  (7  yrs.),  Goodland,  Ind. 
(6  yvs.)  ;  Gallatin,  Mo.  (4  yrs.)  ;  m.  Sept.  21,  '51,  Miss 
Eliza  A.  Currey,  Grand  River  C,  Trenton,  Mo. 

McClintic,  Hugh  Peyton ;  b.  Oct.  16,  1868,  Bath  Co., 
Va. ;  s.  Wm.  and  Nancy  Byrd ;  gr.  Hamp.  Sid.  C,  '96, 
Un.  T.  S  .(Va.),  '99;  lie.  June  15,  '99,  Pby.  Norfolk"; 
ord.  Jul}^  8,  '00,  Pby.  Lexing-ton;  serv.  Shemeriah, 
Basic  City,  Va. ;  Shelbina  group  (2  yrs.),  Plattsburg 
(2  yrs.).  Liberty,  Mo.,  '06—;  S.  C.  Pby.  Upper  Mo. 

McClung,  John  S. ;  b.  Dec.  24,  1837,  near  Jackson- 
ville, 111.  ;  s.  Hervey  and  Sarah  Bird;  gr.  111.  C.  '64.  McC. 
T.  S.  '67;  lie.  April,  '66,  Pby.  Sangamon;  ord.  Nov.  11, 
'67,  Pby.  Bureau;  serv.  Beulah,  Coal  Valley,  Calvars- 
(3  yrs.).  White  Rock  (3  yrs.),  111.;  Oregon,  Mo.  '73-75; 
hm.,  Kans.,  org.  and  built  three  churches,  '75 — ;  org. 
and  bit.  Coal  Valley  and  Calvary ;  m.  June  5,  '67,  Car- 
rie C.  Tomlin,  Jacksonville,  111. 

McElroy,  Wm.  R. ;  b.  Dec.  17,  1856,  Mackville,  Ky. ; 
s.  Samuel  Rice  and  Mary  B.  Reed;  gr.  Drury  C.  S6, 
McC.  T.  S.  '89;  lie.  April,  '89,  Pby.  Ozark;  ord.  Sept. 
'89,  Pby.  Platte;  serv.  Chillicothe,  Mo  .(4  yrs.);  Cas'- 
sopolis,  Mich.,  '93-7;  West  Plains,  Mo.,  '98-02;  Min- 
neapolis (6  3T*s.),  Topeka,  Kans. 

McFarland,  James;  b.  1855,  Co.  Clare,  Ireland; 

St,  Pbn.  C,  Montreal,  McGill  U.,  Quebec  (3  yrs.),  McC. 
T.  S.  (1883)  ;  ord.  '81,  Pby.  Pueblo;  p.  Durango  (2  yrs.), 
Walsenburg  (3  j^rs.).  Central  City  (3  yrs.),  Idaho 
Springs  (2  yrs.),  Denver-Hyde  Park  (11  yrs.),  Colo.; 
Oregon,  Mo.,  '03-06 ;  d.  Aug.  18,  '06,  Oregon,  Mo. 

McGee,  James  W. ;  b.  Oct.  22,  1859,  Leavenworth 
Co.,  Kans, ;  s.  Wm.  F.  and  Sally  Tuggle ;  great-grandson 
of  Rev.  Wm.  McGee;  st.  Kirksville  Normal,  Ozark  C, 
Cumb.  U.,  '86-91;  lie.  Sept.,  '90,  ord.  Sept.  17,  '91, 
Pby.  Chillicothe ;  p.  Bethany,  Pilot  Grove,  Bethel,  But- 
ler, Harrisonville ;  ss.  Mt.  Olive,  Union,  Peculiar,  Mo.; 
p.  Jefferson,  Tex. ;  m.  Aug.  9,  '94,  Ruth  A.  Kinkade, 
Bethany,  Mo. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  207 

McGlothlan,  Albert  W.;  b.  Aug.  2,  1856,  Galesburg, 
111.;  s.  Wm.  and  Sarah  Massey;  gr.  (M.  A.)  North  Mo. 
State  Normal,  '82;  railway  elk.  '82-89;  gr.  Lane  T.  S., 
'92;  ord.  April  20,  '93,  Pby.  Platte;  ss.  Madeira,  0., 
'91-92;  p.  Lathrop  (3  yrs.),  Stanberry  (5  yrsi.),  Savan- 
nah, Mo.,  '01—;  Com.  Gen.  Ass.,  '96;  m.  Aug.,  '82,  Miss 
Frances  Jackson,  Hopkins,  Mo. 

McKay,  James,  Allan;  b.  Sept.  6,  1857,  Lake  Ains- 
lie,  N.  S. ;  s.  Lauchlin  and  Marv  McMillan ;  gr.  Pk.  C. 
'84,  (M.  A.  '87),  MeC.  T.  S.  '87;  ord.  April  12,  '87,  Pby. 
Platte;  p.  New  Hampton  and  Martinsville  (8  yrs.), 
Akron  (12  yrs.).  Mo.;  Davis  City,  Dexter,  la.;  Heron 
Lake,  Minn.;  Milo,  Atkins,  la.,  '08 — ;  m.  April,  '87, 
Miss  Maggie  C.  McRuer,  Union  Grove,  Mo. 

McKinlay,  Geo.  Angus;  b.  Dec.  14,  1847,  Pleasant 
Lake,  Ind. ;  s.  Angus  and  Frances  Forbes ;  st.  La  Grange 
C,  Aub.  T.  S.  (2  yrs.)  ;  lie.  Sept.  '72,  ord.  April  9,  '74, 
Pby.  Platte;  serv.  Mirabile,  Mo.  (3  yrs.)  ;  Owasco  Out- 
let,"^  N.  Y. ;  Carrollton,  Forest  City,  Gallatin,  Mo. ;  Sum- 
ner, Wash. ;  Eugene,  Sellwood,  Pendleton,  Spring  Val- 
ley, McCoy,  Woodburn,  Aurora,  Ore.;  Newark,  Cal.; 
H.  R.  '04,  Pby.  Willamette ;  pres.  Sumner  Acad.,  '83-86 ; 
prin.  Pendleton  Acad.,  '94-96;  m.  Dec.  24,  '68,  Julia 
Brace  Patch,  Ontario,  Ind. 

McNary,  Wm.  Pollock;  b.  Sept.  16,  1839,  Canons- 
burg,  Pa.;  s.  Wm.  H.  and  Margaret  Murray;  gr.  Jel¥. 
C,  '61,  Xenia  T.  S.  '65;  lie.  Mar.  '65,  Pby.  Xenia;  ord. 
Dec.  8,  ^66,  Pby.  Kansas;  p.  Leavenworth,  Kans.,  '66-69  ; 
Bloomington,  Irid.,  '70-84;  Jordan's  Grove,  111.,  '85-86; 
Tarkio,  Mo.,  '86-99;  Creston,  la.,  '05-07;  org.  U.  P." 
church,  Torrington,  Wyo.,  '07 ;  pres.  Board  of  Trustees, 
Tarkio  College,  12  years,  and  fm.  ag.,  '03-05 ;  two  and 
a  half  years  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  and  partici- 
pated in  nine  battles;  D.  D.  Westm.  C. ;  m.  Sept.  27, 
'67,  Elizabeth  Graham,  Wilkinsburg,  Pa.;  m.  Mar.  26, 
'07,  Margaret  Wilson,  Bloomington,  Ind. 

McNair,  Lindsay  Evander;  b.  Nov.  17,  1871,  Jack- 
son, Tenn. ;  s.  Evander  and  Jennie  Stodghill ;  gr.  Wm. 


208  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Jewell  C,  '89,  (Un.  T.  S.  (Va.)  '92-4),  Louisville,  T.  S., 
'95;  lie.  June  15,  '94,  ord.  June  15,  '95,  Pby.  Upper 
Missouri;  serv.  Barnesville,  Platte  City,  Weston,  Gow- 
er,  Stewartsville,  Pleasant  Hill,  Mo.;  Victor,  Colo.; 
'98-01;  St.  Joseph-Second,  Mo.,  '01-07;  Memphis- Ala- 
bama St.,  Tenn.,  '08—;  chan.  Highland  U.,  '07-8;  D.  D., 
High.  U.,  '08;  m.  Dec.  31,  '95,  Emma  C.  Wilson,  Louis- 
ville, Ky. 

McNair,  Evander ;  b.  Robeson  Co.,  N.  C. ;  gr.  Centre 
C,  '57,  Danv.  T.  S.,  '60;  lie.  April,  '59,  Pby.  Transyl- 
vania; ord.  June,  '61,  Pby.  Louisiana;  ch.  C.  S.  A.,  '62; 
p.  Jackson,  Tenn.,  '65-79;  Liberty,  '80-88;  Lathrop, 
'88-90;  Richmond,  '90-93;  Lawson,  '94-96;  Gallatin, 
Mo.,  '96-7 ;  Independence,  Colo. ;  res.  Monroe  City,  Mo. ; 
M.  A.,  '92;  D.  D.,  '95;  Ph.  D.,  '96,  Centre  College. 

McPherson,  Samuel  A. ;  b.  Mar.  20,  1849,  Brazeau, 
Mo. ;  s.  Archibald  M.  and  S.  Malvina  Stevenson ;  st. 
Trinitv  U.,  '75,  theol.  Morgan  Park ;  lie.  April,  '74,  Pby. 
Red  Oak;  ord.  Sept.,  '77,  Pby.  Oazrk  (C.  P.);  hm. 
Barton,  Dade  and  Vernon  counties,  '77-80;  miss,  to 
Choctaws  and  Chickasaws;  hm.  Bond  and  Montg-omery^ 
Cos.,  111. ;  Franklin,  Crawford,  Randolph,  Linn,  Living- 
ston, Daviess  Cos.,  Mo.;  Ellis  McLennan  Cos.,  Tex.  • 
m.  Mar.  7,  '76,  Addie  Brewer,  Dade  Co.,  Mo. 

McRuer,  Duncan  (Sen.)  :  b.  Fd3.  8,  1824,  Lachute 
Quebec;  s.  John  and  Mary  Mclntyre;  gr.  Knox  C. 
Toronto;  st.  theol.  Drs.  WiUis  and  Burnes,  Knox.  C. 
ord.  Pby.  Brantford;  serv.  Paris,  A>t,  Ont. ;  Knox 
Martinsville,  Akron,  New  Hampton,  Mt.  Zion,  Mo.;  org 
several  churches ;  m.  1854,  IMary  Torrance,  Paris,  Can. 
d.  Dec.  18,  '86,  Gentry,  Mo. 

McRuer,  Duncan  (Jr.)  ;  b.  Sept.  13,  1864,  Ayr,  Ont.; 
s.  Duncan  and  Marv-  Torrance ;  gr.  Pk.  C,  '90,  McC.  T. 
S.,  '93;  lie.  April,  ord.  Mav  15,  '94,  Pby.  Platte;  p. 
Grant  City,  Mo.,  '93-99;  Paul's  Valley,  Okla.,  '99-03: 
S.  S.  m.,  Pby.  Ardmore,  '03—:  m.  July  10,  '95,  Retha 
Stalder,  Grant  City,  Mo. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  209 

Meyer,  Wm. ;  b.  Mar.  7,  1849,  Iowa  and  Sac  IMission, 
Kans. ;  s.  John  and  Mary  Schorb ;  gr  Witt.  C,  '75,  Un. 
T.  S.,  '78;  lie.  and  ord.  May,  '78,  Pby.  Dayton;  org. 
and  sup.  Phoenix,  Ariz.,  '78-81 ;  Grant  City  and  Knox, 
Mo.,  '81-5;  Oelwein,  la.;  p.  Edina  (2  yrs.),  Green  City 
(3  yrs.),  Mo.;  org.  and  sup.  Tecnmseh,  Okla.,  '91-9; 
hm.  Bethesda,  Herron,  Rock  Creek,  Jones  City,  Okla.; 
p.  m.  Pby.  Oklahoma. 

Miller,  George;  b.  Sept.  3,  1834,  Chester,  S.  C;  s. 
Robert  H.  and  Susanna  ]\IcAliley;  gr.  Centre  C,  '57, 
Danv.  T.  S.,-  '60;  lie.  April,  '59,  Pby.  Transylvania; 
ord.  Nov.  2,  '60,  Pby.  Lafavette ;  serv.  Pleasant  Hill, 
Mo.,"  '60-62  and  '65-67;  Kansas  City-First,  62-64;  inv. 
3  years ;  org.  and  sup.  Raymore  and  Greenwood,  '70-76 ; 
p.  Oregon  and  New  Point,  '76-81 ;  St.  Joseph-Second^ 
'81-83;  Nevada,  '83-88;  Tarkio,  '88-93 ;  Chillicothe, 
'93-97;  Cameron,  Mo.:  D.  D.,  May,  '92,  High.  U. ;  au. 
'^Missouri's  IMemorable  Decade";  m.  '63,  Mary  Hocka- 
dav.  Pleasant  Hill,  Mo. ;  d.  Jan.  11,  1900,  Kansas  City, 
Mo. 

Mitchell,  Geo.  Albert ;  b.  Benton,  111. ;  s.  James  and 
Sarah  Hurst;  gr.  Lake  For.  C,  '86,  ]\IcC.  T.  S.,  '89;  lie. 
April,  '89,  Pby.  Chicago;  ord.  '89,  Pby.  Freeport ;  st. 
Edinburg-h  and  Berlin ;  ss.  Hanover,  111. ;  p.  Chicago- 
Calvary ;  ev.  work  three  years;  Albany,  Mo.,  '08 — ; 
m.  Feb.  26,   '02,  Jessie  M.  'Strang. 

Moore,  Jeremiah;  b.  Home,  Tenn. ;  s.  Anthony  and 
Nancv  Paxton  Holt;  gr.  Gr.  and  Tusc.  C,  '71,  Lane 
T.  S.,''74;  lie.  Sept.  3,  '73,  ord.  Sept.,  '74,  Pby.  Hoist  on ; 
hm.  Elizabethton,  Amity,  Timber  Ridge,  Mt.  Bethel, 
Oakland,  Tenn.;  Manchester,  '02-05,  Hyden,  Ky., 
'05-07;  Maitland  and  Graham,  Mo.,  '07—;  pres.  Gr. 
and  Tusculum  C,  May,  '83-01 :  prin.  Manchester  Acad., 
'02-05 ;  supt.  mission  work,  Hvden,  '05-07 ;  Com.  Gen. 
Ass.,  '78,  '83,  '92  and  '01;  D.  D.,  Gr.  and  Tusc.  C. ; 
m.  Dec.  10,  '74,  Belle  R.  Mathes,  Washington,  Tenn. 

Moore,  John  iMorrison ;  b.  Washing-ton  Co.,  Pa. ;  s. 
Joseph  and  Eliza  Glenn ;   gr.  Jeff.   C. ;  st.  theol.  Rev. 

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210  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Moses  Allen;  lie.  Oct.  23,  1827,  Pby.  Pittsburg;  ord. 
June  18,  '28,  Pby.  Ohio ;  serv.  Cross  Creek,  Mt.  Prospect, 
Pa. ;  Yellow  Creek,  0. ;  many  feeble  churches  in  O.  and 
Pa.;  Parkville,  Mo.,  '67-70;  D.  D.,  Franklin  C;  m.  Jan. 
10,  '28,  Rosanna  Donnell,  Allegheny  Co.,  Pa. ;  m.  Mar. 
19,  '60,  Nancy  Fraser,  Wellsville,  0. ;  d.  Aug.  19,  '70, 
Parkville,  Mo. 

Morrison,  James  McCalmont ;  b.  July  21,  1832,  Cble- 
raine.  Pa. ;  s.  Alex.  Wilson  and  Margaret  McCalmont ; 
gr.  Del.  C,  '56,  Prin.  T.  S.,  '61;  lie.  June  4,  '61,  Pby. 
Donegal;  ord.  April  6,  '76,  Pby.  Platte;  serv.  Upper 
West  Nottingham,  Pa. ;  Rockport,  69-72,  Union  and 
King  City,  Mo.,  '72-76 ;  Shenandoah  and  Riverside,  ''77- 
80,  College  Springs  and  Blanchard,  la.,  '80-84;  Weston, 
'84-86 ;  Grass  Valley,  '86-93,  :\Ionkland  iind  Moro,  Ore., 
'93-00;  ev.  and  H.  R.,  Pby.  Pendleton;  org.  Rockport, 
Mo.,  Monkland,  Moro,  Ore. ;  jjrin.  Spring  Run  Acad., 
Pa.,  '64-66;  prin.  Female  Sem.,  Newburg,  Pa.,  '66-68, 
tea.  Oregon,  Mo.,  '68-72;  A.  M.,  '59,  Indiana  State  U. ; 
m.  Nov.  18,  '62,  Nancy  Bailey,  Baileyville,  Pa. 

Mullendore,  Geo.  Decatur;  b.  Dec.  26,  1860,  Leaven- 
worth Co.,  Kans. ;  s.  JeroiAe  and  Kathrvne  Wurtz ;  gr. 
S.  W.  State  Normal,  Pa.,  '91,  Lebanon*  T.  S.,  '93 ;  lie. 
Sept.,  '88,  Pby.  Platte  (C.  P.)  ;  ord.  April  9,  '93,  Pby. 
Lebanon ;  serv.  Coffeen,  Palmer,  111. ;  Cayuga,  Ind. ; 
Lerna,  111.;  Kansas  City — First  C.  P.,  Kans.,  (5  yrs.)  ; 
Oak  Grove,  Mo. ;  Pleasant  Valley,  Kans. ;  West  Union, 
Harmony,  Coal  Center,  Pa. ;  p.  Frankf ord ;  m.  April  12, 
'06,  Miss  Blanche  McVay,  Prosperity,  Pa. 

Newell,  Geo.  Edwards;  b.  Mar.  23,  1877,  Chester, 
Pa. ;  s.  Wm.  and  Kate  Edwards ;  gr.  Pk.  C,  '04,  Aub. 
T.  S.,  '07;  lie.  May  29,  '06,  Pbv.  Platte;  ord.  June,  '07, 
Pby.  St.  Joseph;  p.  King  City,  Mo.,  '07—;  m.  Aug.  22, 
'06,  Agnes  Lasley,  Raymore,  Mo. 

Palmer,  Edmund  Marion ;  b.  May  2,  1832,  Mason  Co., 
Ky. ;  s.  Philip  and  Ann  A.  Ivens ;  st.  Westm.  C. ;  tea. 
Fulton,  Mo.;  ord.  Sept.  19,  '68,  Pby.  Palmyra;  p.  La 
Belle,  Philadelphia,  Olivet,  Mo. ;  helper  Park  College 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  211 

Family,  79 — ;  serv.  Parkville,  Platte  City,  Weston, 
Dawn,  Mo. ;  ev.  and  colporteur ;  m.  Sept.  11,  '56,  Miss 
Eliza  Bailey,  Mexico,  Mo. ;  d.  Feb.  1,  '92,  Parkville,  Mo. 

Perry,  Wm.  0.  H. ;  b.  Feb.  11,  1838,  Lake  Co.,  0. ; 
s.  Wm.  C.  and  Eliza  Brown;  gT.  McGee  C,  '60;  lie. 
Oct.  1,  '59,  ord.  Oct.  1,  '64,  Pby.  Platte  (C.  P.)  ;  serv. 
Concord,  Stewartsville,  Weatherby,  Osborn,  Easton, 
Mo. ;  Union,  Dunbar,  Nebr. ;  Columbus,  Lexington,  Ir- 
win, Preston,  Mo.;  Palmyra,  Nebr.,  '08 — ;  pres.  Stew- 
artsville  C,  '63-87,  Odessa  C,  '87-88;  A.  M.,  '65,  McGee 
C. ;  m.  Mar.  2,  '62,  Lizzie  Ozenberger,  Clinton  Co.,  Mo. 

Pringle,  Alex.;  b.  July  1,  1869,  Co.  Meath,  Ireland; 
s.  Joseph  and  Miss.  Rountree;  gr.  Pk.  C,  '97,  Prin.  T. 
S.,  '00;  lie.  May  11,  ord.  May  13,  '00,  Pby.  Platte;  hm. 
San  Coulee,  p.  Kalispell,  Mont.,  '01-06 ;  Juneau,  Alaska, 
'06-08;  Leadville,  Colo.,  '08—;  M.  A.,  '00,  Prin.  U. ;  m. 
June  8,  '04,  Effie  B.  James,  Warsaw,  Ind.     . 

Reed,  James;  b.  Nov.  27,  1834,  Buffalo,  Pa.;  s.  Sam- 
uel and  Mary  Ann  Vincent;  gr.  Wash.  C,  '61,  Wn.  T. 
S.,  '67;  lie.  Oct.  3,  '66,  Pby.  Washington ;  .ord.  April  5, 
'72,  Pby.  Palmyra;  serv.  Milhvood  and  Mt.  Pleasant, 
O.,  '67-70;  Coloma,  Ebenezer,  Laclede  (10  yrs.),  Grants- 
ville,  Bethel,  Avalon  and  Dawn  (3  yrs.).  Savannah 
(6  yrs.),  Rosendale,  Hackberry,  Craig  and  Fairfax 
(3  yrs.),  Union  Star,  Union  and  Barnard  (4  yrs.),  Cow- 
gill,  Polo  and  Dawn  (4  vrs.).  New  Hampton,  Martins- 
ville and  Akron  (4  yrs.)^,  Mo.;  H.  R.,  '05,  Pby.  Platte; 
Com.  Gen.  Ass.,  twice;  tea.,  '61-64;  org.  Bethel  and 
Wheeling  churches;  m.-  May  20,  '68,  Eliza  J.  Mc- 
Williams,  Monroe,  Pa. ;  m.  Feb.  22,  '93,  Mrs.  Laura  V. 
Compton,  Savannah,  Mo. 

Reynolds,  Albert  Melville;  b.  Feb.  19,  1844,'  Rich- 
mond Co.,  Va.;  s.  James  and  Elsie  Davis;  st.  Blkb.  U., 
'69-72,  Blkb.  T.  S.,  '72-74,  Lane  T.  S.,  '75;  lie.  April, 
ord.  Nov.  2,  '75,  Pbv.  Davton;  ss.  Easton,  Willow  Brook, 
Mo.,  '73,  '74;  p.  Blue  Ball,  0.  (4  yrs.);  Spring  Hill 
(5  yrsi.),  Oskaloosa,  Columbus  (2  yrs.),  Kans. ;  La 
Grande,  Ore;  Maryville,  Mo.   (4  yrs.);  Denison,  Tex.; 


212  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Oskaloosa  (2  yrs.),  Topeka-Wesminster,  Kans.,  '97-05; 
St.  Joseph-Third  St.,  Mo.,  '05-07;  inv.  '07—;  member 
Sixth  Kans.  Vol.  Cavalrs^ ;  m.  Aug.  3,  '75,  dan.  Logan 
IMaxwell,  Oak  Grove,  Mo. 

Roberts,  Thomas  D. ;  b.  Jnly  7,  1844,  Carrollton,  0.; 
s.  James  and  Mary  J.  McLain ;  st.  Lenox  C,  High.  U., 
Pk.  C;  theol.  Rev.  John  A.  McAfee;  lie.  April,  '76, 
ord.  April  25,  '77,  Pby.  Platte ;  p.  St.  Joseph-Third  St. 
(4  3^rs.),  Savannah  (2  yrs.),  Oregon  and  New  Point 
(11  yrs.),  St.  Joseph-Third  St.  (7  yrs.),  New  Point,  Mo., 
'06—;  ev.  '01-05;  volnnteer  U.  S.  Army,  '62-66;  m. 
May  19,  '71,  ]\Iiss  Emma  Mathes,  Leon,  la. 

Rogers,  Henry  I\Iartyn;  b.  Oct.  3,  1852,  Rockville, 
Ind. ;  s.  James  S.  and  Jane  Snodgrass;  gr.  Wab.  C.,'75, 
Dant.  T.  S.,  '80;  lie.  April,  '78,  Pby.  Austin;  ord. 
April  25,  '81,  Pby.  Ebenezer;  serv.  Vallev  Creek,  Tex., 
'78-9;  p.  Mt.  Sterling,  Ky.,  '80-2;  Lockland,  O.,  '82-3; 
Hamilton,  Mo.,  '93-7;  Dayton,  Ind.,  '87-98;  Frankfort, 
O.,  '98-00;  Norman,  Okla.,  '01-03;  Rossville,  '03-07,  Vin- 
cennes,  Ind.,  '07—;  m.  Oct.  3,  '82,  Miss  Alma  G.  Smith, 
Richmond,  Ky. 

Sawyers,  Henry  A.;  b.  Feb.  22,  1859,  New  Castle, 
0. ;  s.  Wm.  0.  and  Agnes  Kirker;  gr.  Frank.  C,  '93, 
Lane  T.  S.,  '86;  lie.  April  29,  '85,  Pby.  St.  Clairsville ; 
ord.  Sept.  27,  '86,  Pby.  Ft.  Wayne;  p.  Anbnrn  and 
Waterloo,  Ind.,  '86-90;  Cameron,  '90-94,  Oregon,  '94-03, 
St.  Joseph-Hope,  Mo.,  '03 — ;  an.  ''Series  of  Sermons  on 
Baptism";  m.  Sept.  2,  '86,  Miss  Martha  E.  Seott,  Mary- 
ville.  Mo. 

Schell,  Ulysses  Grant;  b.  Jan.  12,  1864,  Deer  Creek, 
Ind.,  s.  Jacob  and  Eliz.  Zeller ;  gr.  Pars.  C,  '89,  :\IcC. 
T.  S.,  '92 ;  lie.  May.  21,  '91,  Pby.  Platte ;  ord.  June  24. 
'92,  Pbv.  Waterloo;  p.  Greene,  la.,  '92;  Unionville,  Mo., 
'92-98;  Marysville,  Kans.,  '98-00;  White,  S.  D.,  '00-03; 
St.  Joseph-Third  St.,  '03-04;  Union  Star  and  Empire 
Prairie,  Mo.,  '04-08;  Ravmond,  Nebr.,  '08—;  Com.  Gen. 
Ass.,  '96;  D.  D.,  York  C,  '99,  Ph.  D.,  Woos.  U.,  '00; 
m.  Sept.  14,  '98,  Hattie  Orr,  Mt.  Vernon,  Mo. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  213 

Schock,  Lafayette  Henry;  b.  July  24,  1872,  Tiffin,0. ; 
s.  Henrv  M.  and  Sarah  Dryfuse;  gr.  Woos.  U.,  '92 
(Prin.  f.  S.  2  yrs.),  McC.  T.  S.,  '95;  lie.  May  14,  '94, 
Pby.  Philadelphia;  ord.  Sept.  27,  '95,  Pby.  Platte;  sery. 
Breckenridge  and  New  York  Settlement  (2  yrs.),  St. 
Louis-Covenant,  Lathrop,  Mo.;  Virden  (5  yrs.),  Tolono, 
111.,  '08—;  m.  June  6,  '00,  Miss  Stella  Beardslee,  Car- 
linville,  111. 

Scott,  Winfield  Thaeker ;  b.  April  18,  1852,  New  Bos- 
ton, 0. ;  s.  Joseph  and  IMaria  Thaeker ;  gr.  Pk.  C,  '79, 
Lane  T.  S.,'82;  lie.  April,  '82,  ord.  April  12,  '83,  Pby. 
Platte;  serv.  Mirabile,  Lincoln,  Kingston,  Lathrop, 
Laclede,  Bethel,  Grantsville,  Trinity,  Mo.,  '82-85 ;  Ben- 
nington, Kans.,  '85-89;  hm.  Weston,  Athena,  Milton, 
Helix,  Zena,  McCoy,  Oak  Grove,  Cleone-Smith  Mem- 
orial (17  vrs.),  Briclalveil  Falls,  Latourell  Falls,  Spring 
Valley,  Whiteson,  Ore.,  '90—;  m.  June  21,  '82,  Mary  B. 
Higgins,  Kingston,  Mo. 

Sherwood,  Elisha  Barber;  b.  April  15,  1810,  Fair- 
field, Vt. ;  s.  John  and  Lucy  Barber;  st.  Lane  T.  S. 
(1  yr.),  gr.  Oberlin  T.  S.,  '36;  ord.  Sept.  18,  '36,  W. 
Reserve  Cong.  Assn.;  p.  Wilson,  N.  Y.,  (4  yrs.)  ;  p.  m. 
Pby.  Niagara  (5  yrs.);  p.  Liverpool,  Pitcher,  N.  Y. ; 
Edwardsburg,  Cassopolis,  Mich. ; p.m.  Pby.  Platte,  '65 — ; 
D.  D.,  Pk.  C.  and  High.  U. ;  au.  ''Fifty  Yeacs  on  the 
Skirmish  Line";  m.  Jan.  3,  '37,  Miss  Aurelia  M.  Bald- 
win, Darien,  N.  Y. ;  m.  July  25,  '84,  Mrs.  Susan  B. 
Butler,  Youngstown,  N.  Y. ;  d.  Aug.  15,  1905. 

Shields,  James  H. ;  b.  Freeport,  Pa. ;  s.  James  and 
Abigail  Redick;  gr.  W.  &  J.  C,  '69,  Wn.  T.  S.,  '72;  lie. 
]\Iay  21,  '71,  Pby.  Butler;  ord.  June  8,  '72,  Pby.  Belle- 
fontaine;  p.  Crestline,  0.  (4  yrs.)  ;  St.  Louis-Carondelet 
(5  yrs..),  St.  Louis-Cote  Brilliant  (5  yrs.),  Mo.;  Ogden, 
Utah,  '90-91;  Madisonville,  Concord^  0.,  '91-97;  Deca- 
tur, Mich.,  '97-8;  Chillicothe,  Cameron,  Mo.,  '98-04; 
Spokane-Fifth,  Wash.,  '04—;  D.  D.,  Westm.  C.  and  Mi. 
U. 

Smith,  Arnold;  b.  July  19,  1876,  Edzell,  Scotland; 
s.  Rev.  Christopher  and  Mary  CudAvorth;  gr.  Pk.  C.,'03, 


214  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Aub.  T.  S.,  06 ;  lie.  and  ord.  June  17,  '06,  Pby.  Platte ; 
fm.  Anasco,  Aguadilla,  Porto  Rico,  '06 — ;  m.  Aug.  3,  '06, 
Bertha  Isabel  Leland,  Seneca  Falls,  N.  Y. 

Smith,  Henry  (Hal)  Franklin;  b.  Oct.  15,  1853,  Col- 
linsville,  Ala. ;  s.  James  W.  L.  and  Nancy  L.  McNairon ; 
gr.  North  Ala.  C,  '81;  B.  D.,  '87;  lie.  '77,  ord.  '79, 
Pby.  Talladega;  tea.  in  Georgia,  '82-86;  serv.  New- 
burgh,  Ind.,  '87-91;  Kansas  City-Westport  Ave.  (C.  P.), 
'91-93;  Gallatin,  Mo.  (10  yrs.)  ;  Topeka,  Kans.  (3  yrs.)  ; 
Tyler,  Tex.,  '07—. 

Smith,  James  Aikin ;  b.  Oct.  5,  1870,  Garnett,  Kans. ; 
s.  John  A.  and  Margaret  A.  Aikin ;  gr.  Ohio  Normal  U., 
'94,  McC.  T.  S.,  '97;  ord.  April  U,  '97,  Pby. 'Lima;  hm. 
Reading,  Bloomington,  Streator,  Ansable  Grove,  111., 
'97-00;  p.  Kirksville,  Parkville,  Mo.,  '00-02;  Cincinnati- 
Sixth,  0.,  '02-08;  Marion,  la.,  '08—:  m.  Oct.  20,  '97,  :\riss 
Clara  Timmons,  Clarksburg,  0. 

Smith,  Jesse  S. ;  b.  Aug.  28,  1876,  Coffevville,  Kans. ; 
s.  Rev.  Benj.  F.  Smith;  gr.  Pk.  C,  '00,  McC.  T.  S.,  '03; 
lie.  and  ord.  April  15,  '03,  Pby.  Platte;  fm  Copiapo, 
Chile,  '03 — ;  m.  '03,  Miss  Bessie  May  Chambers,  Hope- 
ville,  la. 

Sproule,  Geo.  B.;  b.  Jefferson,  Co.,  0.;  st.  High.  U., 
McC.  T.  S.,  Lane  T.  S. ;  serv.  Plainville,  Kans. ;  '86-90 ; 
Creighton,  Appleton  City,  Brownington,  Deepwater 
(5  yrs.),  Sharon,  Drexel  (5  yrs.),  Mo.;  Mammoth 
Springs,  Ark.;  McFall  (3  vrs.),  Lock  Spring,  Mo., 
'08—. 

Strange,  Ferdinand  Gresham;  b.  Sept.  28,  1848, 
Chattanooga  Co.,Ga. ;  s.  John  A.  and  Fidelia  Gresham; 
gr.  Blkb.  U.,  '72:  st.  Blkb.  T.  S.  and  Lane  T.  S.,  '73-75; 
lie.  April  11,  ord.  Nov.  15,  '74,  Pby.  Alton;  p.  Carlyle, 
111.  (3  yrs.)  ;  King  City  and  Empire  Prairie  (3  yrs.), 
]\Io. ;  Hiawatha,  Kans.  (3  yrs.)  ;  Seattle-First,  Wash. 
(4  yrs.)  ;  Ashland,  Ore.  (15  yrs.)  ;  hm.  Marshfield,"Ore., 
Kent,  Renton,  Sedro-Woolley,  Wash.,  '06— ;  D.  D.  Whit- 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  215 

worth  C,  '04,  A.  M.  Blkb.  U.,  76;  m.  June  15,  71, 
Sarah  A.  Robinson,  Reno,  111. ;  m.  Nov.  7,  77,  Sarah 
Naomi  Van  der  Veer,  King  City,  Mo. 

Sutcliffe,  Bernard  Bliss;  b.  Nov.  6,  1872,  Halifax,  N. 
S. ;  s.  Edward  Walton  and  Mary  Ann  Miller ;  electrical 
eng-ineer  for  years;  gr.  McGill  C. ;  st.  Moody's  Bible 
Institute;  lie.  April  24,  ord.  May  9,  '06,  Pby.  Upper  Mis- 
souri; p.  St.  Joseph-Hyde  Park,  Mo.,  '06 — ;  m.  June 
1,  '06,  Miss  E.  Franc  Anderson,  Inwood,  la. 

Sydenstricker,  Hiram  Mason;  b.  Sept.  26,  1848, 
Lewisburg,  W.  Va. ;  s.  Andrew  and  Prances  Coffman ; 
gr.  Wash,  and  Lee  U.,  '77,  Un.  T.  S.  (Va.),  '80;  lie. 
June,  '79,  Pby.  Greenbrier;  ord.  April  12,  '81,  Pby.  St. 
Louis  (U.  S.)  ;  p.  Wa.ter  Valley,  Miss.  (4  yrs.)  ;  Pleasant 
Hill  (2  yrs.),  Hamilton,  Mo.  (3  yrs.)  ;  syn.  ev.  Synod, 
Texas ;  syn.  ev.  Syn.  Nashville ;  p.  Brownwood,  Tex. ; 
Corinth,  West  Point,  Miss.;  prof,  philosophy  and  Mol. 
Lang.,  Daniel  Baker  C. ;  A.  M.  and  Ph.  D.,  Woos.  U. 

Symonds,  Earnest  W. ;  b.  Jan.  1,  1858,  England;  s. 
Matthew  and  Elizabeth  Jenman ;  st.  '78-81 ;  tea.  in  Iowa 
13  years;  gr.  Oma.  T.  S.,  '94;  lie.  April  24,  ord.  May  3, 
'94,  Pby.  Platte;  serv.  Barnard,  Graham,  Hopkins,  Mo., 
'90-92;  Marne,  la.,  '92-94;  p.  St.  Joseph-Hope,  Mo., 
(8  yrs.)  ;  Chicao^o-Immanuel,  '02 — ;  m.  Nov.  27,  '88,  Miss 
Martha  Mary  Wilson,  Massena,  la. 

Tatum,  Nuburn  McAdow;  b.  Mar.  27,  1876,  Wood- 
bury, Tenn. ;  s.  Rev.  A.  C.  and McAdow ;  tea. 

Woodville,  Milan,  Tenn. ;  gr.  Southern  Normal  U.,  '00 ; 
lie.  '01,  Pby.  Obion;  ord.  '02,  Pby.  Hopewell;  serv. 
Flippin,  Davidson's  Chapel,  :\Iedina,  Tenn.:  Newman. 
Cal. :  Memphis-Central,  Tenn. ;  Hopewell,  Lockspring 
(3  yrs.),  Prairie  Valley,  Centerview,  Mo.;  m.  June  30, 
'05,  Miss  Edna  Sweet,  Stanton,  Tenn. 

Taylor,  Hugh;  b.  Aug.  9,  1862,  Iowa  City,  Ta. ;  s. 
Hugh  and  Jane  Windreni;  gT.  Pk,  C,  '85,  Prin.  T.  S., 
'88;  lie.  July  10,  ord.  Aug.  5,  '88,  Pbv.  Platte;  fm. 
Laos,  Siam,  '88—;  A.  M.,  '88,  D.  D.,  'Oi,  Park  C; ;  m. 
July  26,  '88,  Dora  Belle  Martin,  Crawfordsville,  Ind. 


216  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Teis,  Edward  Barth;  b.  Oct.  17,  1866,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. ; 
s.  Peter  George  and  Rosina  Barth;  st.  Pk.  C,  gr.  Prin. 
T.  S.,  '93  (p.  g-.  '94-5) ;  lie.  Oct.  14,  ord.  Oct.  15,  '93, 
Pbv.  Kendall;  serv.  Soda  Springs,  Ida.;  Joplin  (Cong. 
ch.),  Platte  City  and  Weston  (2  yrs.).  Mo.;  Columbus, 
Kans. ;  Anadarko,  Okla. ;  p.  ev.  Pby.  El  Reno,  '08 — ; 
m.  June  30,  '96,  Mary  Alma  Hunter,  Gallatin,  Mo. 

Terhune,  Thomas  Barnett ;  b.  Mar.  16,  1870,  Perry- 
ville,  Ky. ;  s.  Barnett  and  Sarah  E.  Ewing  (niece  of 
Finis  Ewing);  gr.  Centre  C,  '90,  McC.  T.  S.,  '93;  lie. 
and  ord.  June  24,  '92,  Pby.  Rock  River;  ss.  Beulah,  111., 
'91-2;  p.  Moberly-First  (3  yrs.),  Lathrop  (3  yrs.).  Mo.; 
hm.  North  Jellico,  Boyle,  Pittsburg,  Barboursville, 
Bradfordsville,  Ky.  (6  yrs.)  ;  p.  Huntington,  Ind.  '05 — ; 
m.  May  24,   '92,  Miss  Abigail  E.  Prine,  Lebanon,  Ky. 

Tharp,  James  Henry:  b.  Jan.  4,  1847,  Linn  Co.,  Mo.; 

s.  James  and  Hughes ;   gr.  McGee  C,    '70 ;   st. 

theol.  Dr  .J.  B.  Mitchell  (pres.  McGee  C.)  ;  lie.  Mar.. 
'68,  ord.  Oct.  2,  '70,  Pby.  Chillicothe ;  tea.  and  hm., 
'70-75;  p.  Gallatin  (8  yrs.),  Albany  (4  yrs.).  King  City 
(7  yrs.),  Odessa  (4  yrs.).  Mo.;  syn.  m.  Synod  Missouri 
(5  yrs.)  ;  hm.  near  Odessa  (3  yrs.),  near  St.  Joseph 
(2  yrs.)  ;  p.  Gallatin,  Mo.,  '70 — ;  m.  July  5,  '71,  Mary 
F.  Jeter,  Chillicothe,  Mo. 

Thompson,  Francis  E. ;  b.  May  3,  1849,  New  Wil- 
mington, Pa.;  s.  James  ]\I.  and  Sarah  J.  Porter;  gr. 
Westm.  C.  (U.  P.),  '70,  AVn.  T.  S.,  '73;  lie.  April  4.  '72, 
Pby.  Shenango;  ord.  June  25,  '73,  Pby.  Kittanning:: 
p.  Concord  and  Mahoning  (4  yrs.),  Pa.;  inv.  one  year; 
Fairmount  (1  yr.),  Marysville,  Kans.  (3  yrs.);  Kin-g 
City,  Empire  Prairie,  Gallatin,  Bethel,  Jameson,  Mo., 
'82-86;  Cawker  City  (7  yrs.),  Mankato  (4  yrs.),  AVilson 
(4  yrs.),  Kans.;  St.  Edwards  (4  yrs.),  Niobrara  and 
Anoka,  Nebr.,  '05 — ;  m.  June  6,  '70,  Margaret  E.  Steen, 
New  Wilmington,  Pa. 

Townsend,  Richard  Cameron ;  b.  June  13,  1854, 
North  Washington,  Pa. ;  s.  Wm.  H.  and  Hannah  E.  Van 
Sant;  St.  Pk.  C,  '81  and  '82;  gr.  Aub.  T.  S.,  '85;  tea. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  217 

Pa.  and  Kans.,  71-81;  lie.  April  16,  '85,  Pby.  Cayuga: 
ord.  Sept.  30,  '85,  Pby.  Alton;  p.  Staunton  (3  yrs.), 
Raymond,  111.;  Tipton,  la.  (4  yrs.);  Maryville-Second, 
Mo.,  '92-3;  Stillwater,  Okla.  (2  yrs)  ;  p.  m.  Pby.  Okla^ 
homa;  Dunlap  and  Alta  (8  yrs.),  Oswego  (2  yrs.),  Car- 
terville  and  Herrin,  111. ;  Middle  Sandy  and  Hanover- 
ton,  O.,  '07—;  ni.  June  14,  '87,  Miss  Rebekah  E.  Jacke, 
Lawrence,  Kans. 

Waits,  Edward  Wallace ;  b.  1855,  Cambridge,  Eng. ; 
s.  Edward  and  Suzanna  Wallace;  gr.  Jesus  C,  Cam- 
bridge ;  st.  Edinburg  U.  and  Berlin ;  theol.  Free  Church 
Theological  Hall,  Glasgow,  and  Theo.  Hall,  Can. ;  gr. 
'73;  lie.  May,  ord.  June  13,  '73,  Pby.  Hamilton,  Ont. ; 
p.  Waterdown,  '73-77,  Stratford,  Out.,  '77-81;  Mira- 
michi-St.  Andrews,  N.  B.,  '81-88;  Owen  Sound,  Ont., 
'88-02;  Glasgow  and  Prazerborough,  Scotland,  '02-05; 
Cameron,  05-08,  Moimd  City,  Mo.;  Granite  City,  111., 
'09;  B.  Sc.  Berlin,  U.,  D.  Sc.,  Chicago.,  U. ;  m.  Mary 
Buehan,  Aberdeen,  Scotland;  m.  Nellie  Grant,  Glen- 
garry, Ont. 

Walton,  James  M. ;  b.  Barboursville,  Ky. ;  s.  William 
Isaac  and  Rhoda  Hudson;  gr.  Centre  C,  '88  (A.  M., 
'93),  Danv.  T.  S.,  '90;  lie.  April  8,  ord.  May  24,  '90, 
Pby.  Transylvania;  p.  Greensburg  (6  yrs.),  Livingston 
(2  yrs.),  Hyden  (4  yrs.),  Ky. ;  Salem  (2  3^rs.),  Shannon- 
dale,  Tenn.  (2  yrs);  syn.  ev.  Syn.  Kentucky;  p.  Ore- 
gon, Mo.,  '07 — ;  prin.  Coll.  Institute,  Mt.  Vernon,  and 
Hyden  Acad.,  Ky. ;  A.  M.,  '92,  Centre  C. ;  m.  Oct.  12, 
'96,  IMiss  Nellie  Sambrook. 

Ware,  Samuel  Miller;  b.  Aug.  28,  1852,  Richmond, 
Ky. ;  s.  Samuel  C.  and  Sarah  A.  Miller ;  gr.  111.  Wesl. 
U.,  '79  (A.  M.,  '82),  McC.  T.  S.,  '84;  tea.  Tuscola,  111., 
'79-81;  ord.  May  6,  '84,  Pby.  St.  Louis;  p.  Ferguson 
(3  yrs.),  Clinton  (3  yrs.).  Mo.;  Omaha-Second  (8  yrs), 
Nebr.;  Maryville,  Mo.,  '98-02;  Spokane-Fourth,  Wash., 
'02 — ;  memb.  Board  Trustees  Omaha  U.  and  T.  S.; 
D.  D.,  '92,  Oma.  U. 


218  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Watson,  Robert  A.;  b.  Athens,  N.  Y.;  gr.  Scio  C, 
71  (M.  A.,  '80),  Wn.  T.  S.,  74;  lie.  73,  Pby.  Steuben- 
ville;  ord.  74,  Pby.  Wooster;  p.  Shreve  (3  yrs.).  West 
Riishville  (7  yrs.),  Radnor  (3  yrs.),  Eckmansville  and 
Mt.  Leigh  (6  yrs.),  Montgomery,  O.,  '96-7;  Fairfax, 
Mo.,  '02-05;  ev.  and  hm.,  '97—;  D.  D.,  1891;  m.  Miss 
Jennie  Shields,  Blairsville,  Pa. 

Weaver,  James  Henry;  b.  Dec.  15,  1848,  Hardimau 
Co.,  Tenn. ;  s.  John  Henson  and  Matilda  Collie ;  gT.  S. 
W.  Pbn.  U.,  76,  Un.  T.  S.  (Va.),  '79;  lie.  April  and  ord. 
Oct.,  '79,  Pby.  Memphis;  p.  Atoka  and  Big  Creek 
(6  yrs.).  Mason  and  Center  (3  yrs.),  Tenn.;  Jefferson- 
town,  and  Beulah  (4  yrs.),  Campbellsville  and  Bethel 
(6  yrs.),  Ky. ;  hm.  Smyrna,  Graham,  Monroe,  '98-04,  p. 
Brownstown  (4  yrs.),  Ind. ;  Breckenridge  and  N.  Y. 
Settlement,  '08 — ;  m.  June,  '76,  Tipton  Co.,  Tenn. 

West,  Donald  Sloan;  b.  June  15,  1873,  Wanganui, 
New  Zealand;  s.  Rev.  William  and  Elizabeth  Wales; 
St.  Canterbury  C.  and  Otego  U. ;  Theological  Hall, 
Dunedin,  '01 ;  tea.  for  several  years  previous ;  hm. 
Dannevirke,  '95-6,  Wellington-St.  Andrews  (asst.), 
summer  '96  and  '97,  Patea,  '98-9,  Cheviot,  '00-01 ;  Cav- 
ersham,  N.  Z.,  '01-02;  Fairfax,  Mo.,  '02-05;  hm.  Am- 
berg,  Athelstane,  Pembina,  Wis. ;  m.  Dec.  31,  '03,  Miss 
Magdeline  Haven,  Neenah,  Wis. 

West,  Richard  Bmce ;  b.  July  8,  1871,  New  Zealand ; 
s.  Rev.  William  and  Elizabeth  Wales;  st.  in  N.  Z.  till 
'92,  and  Moody  Bible  Inst.,  '96;  ord.  Nov.  2,  '97,  Cong. 
Council  in  Vt. ;  serv.  Cong.  ch.  Bridgewater,  Vt.,  '97-00; 
St.  Joseph-Faith  (2  yrs.),  Craig  (6  yrs.),  Mo.;  Ham- 
burg, la.,  '08—;  m.  June  10,  '96,  Jessie  M.  Kirkland. 

Williams,  Henry  F. ;  b.  Nov.  4,  1847,  Hannibal,  Mo.; 
s.  Henry  M.  and  Amanda  M.  Bird ;  st.  while  teaching ; 
theol.  Dr.  James  H.  Brookes;  lie.  '79,  Pby.  West  Texas; 
ord.  Sept.  15,  '80,  Pby.  Platte;  ev.and  Y.  W.  C.  A. 
Sec,  3  years;  International  Sec.  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  N.  Y. 
City,  12  years;  p.  St.  Louis-Ch.  of  Covenant  (7  yrs.), 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  219 

Mo. ;  Editor  publications  For.  Miss.  Executive  Com. 
(U.  S.),  Nashville,  Tenn. ;  m.  Nov.  26,  '68,  Miss  Mary  E. 
Etarpham,  Havana,  111. 

Williamson,  George  H. ;  b.  July  11,  1840,  Bedford, 

N.  Y. ;   s.  Francis  A.   and  Cornelia  ;   st. 

Amenia  Sem.,  Trov  U.,  N.  Y.  U.  (8  yrs.),  Burlington 
T.  S.;  ord.  Sept.  5^  '69,  Bp.  Geo.  F.  Pierce  (P.  E.),  St. 
Louis,  Mo. ;  miss,  among  Cherokees,  supt.  Orphan 
Asylum,  pres. -Tahlequah  C.  (4  yrs.),  and  other  school 
work ;  reed,  by  Pby.  Ozark,  '81 ;  hm.  and  p..  Ash  Grove, 
Cameron,  Carthage,  Fairplay,  Fordland,  Green  City, 
Greenfield  (3  yrs.).  Golden  City,  Hamilton  (twice),  Ir- 
win, Jefferson  City  (2  yrs.),  Joplin  (twice),  Kirksville, 
Lockwood,  Millard,  Monett  (twice),  ^It.  Vernon 
(2  yrs.),  Ozark  Prairie  (8  yrs.),  St.  Joseph-Third  St., 
St.  Louis-McCansland  Ave.,  Trenton-Hodge,  West 
Plains  (2  yrs.).  White  Oak,  Mo.;  built  ten  churches  in 
Mo.,  besides  manses. 

Willis,  William  James;  b.  April,  1871,  Wayland 
Springs,  Tenn.;  s.  J.  V.  and  E.  A.  Williams;  st.  Cum- 
berland U.;  gr.  C.  U.  v.,  '01;  lie.  Sept.  15,  '94,  Pby. 
Richland ;  ord.  Mar.  6,  '01,  Pby.  Lebanon ;  p.  Nashville- 
Watkins  Park,  Tenn.;  Sheffield,  Ala.;  Bethany,  Mo.; 
Siloam  Springs-First,  Ark. ;  Huntingdon  and  Trezevant, 
Tenn.,  '09 — ;  S.  C.  and  treas.  Pby.  Arkansas. 

Wilson,  John ;  b.  June  26,  1843,  Bridgenorth,  Shrop- 
shire, Eng. ;  s.  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  Collins;  gr.  High. 
U.,  '72;  theol.  Dr.  John  A.  McAfee;  lie.  April  3,  '73, 
ord.  April  15,  '74,  Pby.  Highland;  hm.  and  p.  Frank- 
fort (3  yrs.),  Vermillion,  Irving  and  Beloit  (3  yrs.), 
Glen  Elder,  Oberlin  (11  yrs.),  Norton,  Clayton,  Colby, 
Oakley,  Phillipsburg,  Kans.,  '73-91 ;  Lathrop  and  Mira- 
bile  (2  yrs.),  Mo.;  p.  m.  Pby.  Platte,  '93-98;  hm.  Hunt- 
ington, Nephi,  Payson,  Utah,  '98-02;  Osceola,  Vista, 
Raj^more,  Willow  Springs,  Mo.,  '02-08;  Garden  Grove 
and  Leroy,  la.,  '08 — ;  org.  4  chs.  in  Kans.;  S.  C,  Pby. 
Osborne, ''83-91,  Pby.  Utah,  '99-02,  Svn.  Utah,  '01-02; 
Mod.  Syn.  Kansas,  '87 ;  U.  S.  Army,  '61-65 ;  m.  Oct.  30, 
'66,  Miss  Rachel  S.  Whitehead,  Macon,  Mo. 


220  HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY. 

Wilson,  Samuel  Fackler;  b.  Nov.  2,  1855,  Greenfield, 
Mo. ;  s.  A.  M.  and  R.  M.  Tarbet ;  st.  High.  U.  and  Pk. 
C,  '72-78;  tea.  in  Kans.,  2  years;  8  years  in  railroad 
service;  lie.  Oct.,  '88,  ord.  Nov.,  '90,  Eastern  Cong 
Assn.;  serv.  Tonganoxie  and  North  Lawrence  (5  yrs.), 
Kans.;  Wymore,  Table  Rock,  Beatrice-Second  (2  yrs.), 
Nebr. ;  Oskaloosa  (2  yrs.),  Kans.;  Oak  Grove  and  Eas- 
ton,  Mo. ;  sec.  Park  College,  8  years ;  p.  Chickasha-First, 
Okla.,  '08—;  m.  Aug.  19,  '80,  Miss  M.  E.  Smith,  Lenexa, 
Kans. 

Wolfe,  Austin  Dickinson ;  b.  Jan.  4,  1861,  Montclair, 
N.  J.;  s.  Aaron  Robarts  and  Laura  P.  Jackson;  mere, 
bus.,  '78-84;  gr.  N.  Y.  U.,  '87,  Un.  T.  S.,  '90;  lie.  April 
6,  '90,  Pby.  Newark ;  ord  June  12,  '90,  Pby.  Waterloo ; 
p.  State  Center,  la.  (4  yrs.);  Seward,  Nebr.,  '94-6; 
Avalon  (2  yrs.),  Mound  City,  Mo.,  '98-01;  libr.  Park  C, 
'01—;  pres.  Avalon  C.  (Acad.),  '96-98;  m.  April  29,  '90, 
Cornelia  S.  Weitzel,   Scranton,  Pa. 

Woodward,  George  S. ;  b.  Oct.  18,  1819,  Gardiner, 
Me.;  gr.  Bowd.  C,  '44;  tea.  West  Chester,  Pa.,  four 
years  and  st.  theol.  Dr.  John  Crowell;  lie.  '47,  Pby. 
Philadelphia ;  ord.  '49,  Pby.  Missouri ;  p.  Parkville,  Mo., 
'49-63;  Leavenworth-First,  Kans.,  '63-67,  when  throat 
trouble  compelled  resignation;  insurance  bus.  till  his 
death,  April  1,  1892. 

Wright,  John.;  b.  Feb.  9,  1876,  Ellendale,  N.  D. ; 
s.  xVlex.  AVright;  gr.  Pk.  C,  '03,  Prin.  T.  S.,  '06;  lie. 
and  ordv  June  17,  '06,  Pby.  Platte;  fm.  Libreville, 
Gaboon,  West  Africa,  '06 — ;  m.  ]\Iiss  Una  Van  Alen, 
Gresham,  Nebr. 

Wright,  Wiley  K. ;  b.  Sept.  23, 1856,  St.  Peter,  Minn. ; 
s.  Newell  K.  and  Marv  J.  Hunter;  gr.  Knox  C,  '79, 
Un.  T.  S.,  '82  (McC.  T.  S.,  '79-80)  ;  lie.  May,  '81,  Pby. 
Peoria;  ord.  May  16,  '82,  Pby.  Logansport;  p.  Misha- 
waka,  Ind.,  '82-92;  Petoskey\3  yrs.).  Traverse  City, 
Mich.,  '95-04;  Trenton-Hodge  (2  yrs.).  Mo.;  Holly, 
Colo.,    '07—;    S.    C,    Pbv.    Logansport,    '86-92,    Pbv. 


HISTORY  OF  PLATTE  PRESBYTERY.  231 

Petoskev,  '92-04;  Mod.  Syn.  Michigan,  '97-98;  A.  M., 
'82,  Knox.  C;  m.  May  11,  '82,  Sarah  D.  Bateman, 
Galesburg-,  111. 

Young,  John  Newton;  b.  June  12,  1828;  Hawkins 
Co.,  Tenn. ;  s.  Arthur  G.  and  Elizabeth  McChesnev ;  gr. 
Jeff.  C,  '52;  St.  New  Albany  T.  S.,  Prin.  T.  S.  and 
Danv.  T.  S. ;  lie.  '54,  Pby.  Transylvania;  ord.  Nov.  16, 
'56,  Pby.  Upper  Missouri;  hm.  Albany  (6  yrs.),  Samp- 
son Creek,  Union  (6  yrs.),  Fillmore  (6  yrs.),  Mo.; 
Salem  (4  yrs.),  Nebr. ;  Clinton,  Marion,  Kans.,  '74-76; 
Neosho,  Mo.;  Altamont,  Edna,  Mound  Valley,  Ripon, 
Kans.,  '77-88;  Graham  and  Mizpah,  Mo.;  ev.  and  H.  R., 
'91 — ;  org.  Empire  Prairie;  memb.  State  Senate,  '65-67; 
m.  Sept.  9,  '56,  Miss  Jane  Patterson,  Lafayette  Co.,  Mo. 

Young,  John  N.  Jr. ;  b.  July  1,  1867,  Fillmore,  Mo. ; 
s.  John  Newton  and  Jane  Patterson;  gr.  Pk.  C,  '88, 
Prin.  T.  S.,  '91;  lie.  and  ord.  Mav  20,  '91,  Pbv.  Platte; 
fm.  Peking,  China,  '91-93;  d.  Feb.  18,  '93,  Peking, 
China. 


INDEX 


GENERAL. 

TTie  Alamo;  164.  American  Bible  Society;  166.  American 
Home  Missionary  Society;  24,  34.  Avalon  College;  90. 
Baker  school  house;  97.  Basket  Meeting;  154.  Blair;  100. 
Burlington  R.  R.  Co.;  122.  Calvinism;  171.  Camp  Meetings; 
6.  Chapel  Hill  College;  163.  Christian  Union;  42,  135.  Civil 
War;  67,  180.  Committee  of  Missions;  113.  Cooper's  Fort;  9. 
Cowan  school  house;  101.  Crooked  River,  39,  42.  Cumber- 
land Church;  171.  Cumberland  Synod;  3.  Dillon  Creek;  26, 
160.  Eureka  school  house;  96.  "Fifty  Years  on  the  Skirmish 
Line";  176.  Fishing  River  Baptist  Church;  135.  Grennan 
Work;  168.  Glassville;  97.  Goliad;  164.  Grand  River;  5,  21. 
Grand  River  College;  5,  Hackberry  Ridge;  15,  144.  Haynes 
Academy;    126.     Highland,  Kans.;    162.     History  Kansas  City 

Presbytery;  2,  4,  26,  167 ,  Platte  Presbytery  (U.  S. 

A.);    1,   69 Upper  Missouri  Presbytery;    2.     Hope 

Chapel;  73,  124.  Industrial  Luminary;  51.  Iowa  and 
Sac  Mission;  43,  162.  Jarrold's  Valley;  108.  Jefferson  school 
house;  42.  Kansas  Leaguer's;  51.  Kansas-Nebraska  bill;  51. 
Kelley  school  house;  98.  Kellyites;  42.  Ketron  Chapel;  99. 
King  Hill  school  house;  130.  Ladies'  Aid  Society;  121.  Lon- 
don school  house;  107.  Lonesome  school  house;  134.  Marion 
College;  180.  Maxwell  school  house;  93,  95.  McCollum  school 
house;  68.  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South;  80^  Miller 
school  house;  4,  138.  "Missionary"  Assembly;  113.  Mission- 
ary Workers;  183-6,  188.  Mormons;  5.  Mt.  Mora;  73.  Mt. 
Pleasant;  120.  New  Liberty  school  house;  134.  New  Salem 
school  house;  148.  Nishnabotna;  117.  Park  College;  36, 
179-187.  Park  College  Family;  180.  Pastor-at-Large ;  177. 
Paxton's  Annals  of  Platte  County;  23,  28,  152,  160.  Phelps 
school  house;  83.  Platte  Purchase;  2,  4,  14,  160.  Platte 
School;    187.     Presbytery  of  Barnett;    1,  2,   3,  4,  6,  145,  165. 

Chillicothe;  52,  140 College  Springs; 

128 Des  Moines ;   74 Kirksville ; 

174. Lexington;    1,   2,   14,   67 Mc- 

Gee ;   174 Nebraska  (U.  P.) ;   137 

Platte  (C.  P.) ;  1,  2,  3,  4,  83,  131,  138-9,  145,  152,  154 . 

Platte  (O.  S.);  2,  36,  141,  154,  168 Platte  (U.S. 

A.) ;  1,  2,  48,  83,  169-174 St.  Joseph ;  174 

Upper  Missouri;  1,  2,  25,  67.  Primitive  Baptists;  171.  Radi- 
cal school  house;  92.  Richmond  College;  167,  187.  Robidoux 
Landing;  33.  Second  Creek;  6,  120.  Schelleberger  school 
house;  97.  Shiloh;  100.  Stewartsville  College;  187.  Sugar- 
tree  Grove  Academy;  5,  6,  188.  Synod  of  Missouri  (O.  S.); 
2,  3 Missouri  (C.  P.) ;  137,  140 Tennes- 
see;  2 Upper  Missouri;   2.     Tarkio  College;    114, 

188.  "Twenty-five  Years  of  Tarkio  Congregation";  112.  Uni- 
ted Brethren;  178.  United  Synod  of  Missouri;  1.  Walkup's 
Grove  school  house;  110.  Weeden's  Campground;  6,  9. 
Westminster  Chapel;  72,  105.  White  Oak  Creek;  67.  Wilsie 
school  house;  107. 


INDEX.  223 


CHURCHES. 


Agency;  137.  Akron;  106.  Albany;  56,  159.  Albany 
(C.  P.);  57.  Alpha;  137.  Antiooh;  137.  Aubrey  Grove;  99. 
Avalon;  89.  Barbee  Memorial;  125.  Barnard;  138.  Barnes- 
ville;    40.     Barry;    6.     Bee  Creek;    4,  133,  138,   158.     Betha,ny 

(Clinton  Co.) ;  98 ;  75.  Bethel  (C.  P.) ;  140 (U. 

S.) ;  25 (U.  S.  A.) ;  31, 100.  Bethlehem  (Clay  Co.) ;  133, 

159.  Bethljhem;  85.  Birming;  140  .  Blythedale;  140.  Brecken- 
ridge;  78, 169.  Burlington  Junction;  128.    Cameron;  80.  Carroll; 

141.  Carrollton;  88,  169.  Castile;  32.  Chillioothe;  63,  169 

(O.  S.);  141.  Chula;  127.  Clear  Creek;  30,  67.  Clear  Fork; 
141.  Coloma;  141.  Concord;  2.  Oowgill;  97-8.  Craig;  111. 
Crooked  River;    39,  169.     Cumberland  Ridge;    26.     Dawn;    74, 

169.    Dearborn;   150.    Easton  (C.  P.) ;  83 (N.  S.) ; 

81,  169.  Ebenezer;  141.  Elderton;  141.  Elk  Horn;  80.  Em- 
pire Prairie;   69.    English  Grove;   62.    Fairfax;   117.    Fairview; 

89,169 (Andrew  Co.);    142 (C.  P.); 

109.  Fancy  Bottom;  138.  Farley;  142.  Fawcett;  142.  Fill- 
more; 51,  169.  Fishing  River;  54.  Flag  Springs  (C.  P.) ;  38. 
(O.  S.) ;  16,  70.  Forest  City;  142,  169.  Galla- 
tin   (C.  P.);    59 (U.   S.  A.);    60.     Gaynor   City; 

126.     Glassvllle;    96.     Glendale;    143.     Goshen;    143.     Gower; 

121.    Graham;    66,  169.     Grand  River   (C.  P.);    58 

(U.  S.  A.);  143,  153.  Grand  View;  144,  169.  Grant  City; 
116.     Green  Valley;   122.     Hackberry  Ridge;    144.     Hamilton; 

7y,  169.    Halleck;  145.    Harmony;  91 (Daviess 

Co.);    145.     Highland;    146.     High  Prairie;    109,  142.     Hodge; 

103.    Honey  Creek;  146.    Hope;  100 (St.  Joseph) ; 

124.      Hopewell;    31,    99.      Hopkins;    104.       Hyde    Park;    130. 

latan;  138.    Independence  (C.  P.) ;  146 (German) ; 

168.     Jameson;    146.     Jamesport;    147.     King  City   (C.  P.) ;   85. 

(U.S.  A.);  85.    Kingston  (O.  S.) ;  147 

(U.  S.  A.);    118.    Knox;    98.     Lathrop;    83,  169,  177.    Lawson; 

42.    Lebanon;  5.      Liberty  (C.  P.) ;   147 (U. 

S.);  11.  Lincoln;  96.  Line  Creek;  168.  Linkville;  i20. 
Lock  Springs;  58.  Long  Branch;  147.  Mabel;  120.  Mace- 
donia; 147.     Maitland;  127.  Maple  Grove;  148.     Mars  Hill;  28. 

Martinsville;    101.     Maryville,  First;    88 (O.  S.); 

148 Second ;    88 Union ;    87,  169. 

McFall;  148.     Mirabile;  44,  169.     Missouri  City;  135.     Mizpah; 

148.  Morton-Hardin;  127.    Mound  City;  100.     Mt.  Bethel;  133, 

138.      Mt.    Carmel;    149 (Carroll    Co.);    149.      Mt. 

Gilead;   149.     Mt.  Olive;   68.     Mt.  Pisgah;   138.     Mt.  Pleasant; 

149.  Mt.  Zion  (C.  P.);    95 (Harrison  Co.);    149. 

(U.  S.  A.);    21,  67,  169.     Muddy  Creek;    53.     New 

Design;  58.  New  Hampton;  119.  New  Liberty;  134.  New 
Market;  150.  New  Point;  100,  162.  New  Providence;  52. 
New  Salem;   42.     New  York  Settlement;   92,  169.     Oak  Grove 

(C.  P.);    122 (U.  S.  A.);    93,  169.     Oregon;    43, 

162  169.     Osborn;   151,169 (C.  P.);   151.     Paint 


224  INDEX. 

Lick;  151,  169.    Parkville;  34.     Patton;  151.    Phelps  City;  152, 

169.    Pisgah  (N.  S.) ;  15 (U.  S.  A.) ;  152.    Platte 

(C.  P.) ;  27,  152 (N.  S.) ;  152.    Platte  City  (C.  P.) ; 

152 (U.  S.) ;  28,  169.     Plattsburg;  68.     Pleasant 

Ridge;    152.      Pleasant  View;    97 (C.  P.);    133-4. 

Plum  Creek;  44.  Plum  Grove;  21.  Polo;  123.  Prairie  Val- 
ley; 145.     Prathersville;   133,  135.     Providence;   54.    Ravanna, 

153.     Richfield;    153.     Richmond    (N.   S.) ;    153 

(O.  S.);  32.  Ridgeley;  41.  Rochester;  53.  Rockport;  153. 
Rock  House  (C.  P.) ;  4,  154 (O.  S.) ;  154.  Rock- 
port;  96,  161.  Rosendale;  91.  Round  Grove;  110.  Round 
Prairie;  16.     St.  Johns  (German);   168.     St.  Joseph-Brookdale; 

131 ,  Faith;    129 ,   First    (C.  P.) ;    128, 

133,  136 ,  First  (N.  S.)  ;    33,  165 , 

First   (U.  P.);    128 ,  First   (U.  S.);    47,  49,  130. 

(German) ;  168 ,  Hope;  124 , 

Hyde  Park ;   130 ,  North ;   105 ,  Oak 

Grove  (C.  P.) ;  122 ,  Oak  Grove  (U.  S.  A.) ;  93,  169. 

,  Second;    114 ,  Sixth  St.;    47,  169. 

,  Third;  49 ...,  Third  St.;  105 , 

Westminster;  48,  71,  169,  174-5.  St.  Louis;  2,  Salem;  137,  169. 
Sampson  Creek;  67.   San  Antonio;  154,163.   Savannah  (C.  P.); 

26 (German);    168 (N.  S.) ;    14,67, 

169 (O.  S.);  16.    Second  Creek;  6,    Shady  Grove; 

54,   154,    161.       Stanberry;     111.       Stewartsville     (C.  P.);     76. 

(U.    S.);    32.     Tarkio    (U.   P.);    112 

(U.  S.  A.);    107.     Timber  Ridge;    149.     Tina;    121,   153.     Tin- 

ney's  Grove;  154.    Trenton-First;  102 Hodge;  103. 

(N.   S.);    155.     Union;    69,   169.     Union   Chapel; 

155.  Union  Star;  117.  Wakenda;  155.  Walkup's  Grove;  110. 
Walnut  Grove  (  C.  P.) ;  133 (U.  S.) ;  54.    Watson; 

156.  Weatherby;    122.      Westboro;     156.      West    Fork;     156. 

Weston    (German) ;    168 (U.  S.  A.) ;    23,  67,  166, 

169.  Westport  (German);  168.  West  Union;  14,  156.  Wheel- 
ing;  156,  169.     Willow  Brook;    157,  169.    York;   113,  133,  137. 


INDEX.  225 

RULING    ELDERS. 

Ordinarily  the  ruling-  elders  are  the  permanent  and  the 
controling  element  in  our  churches.  Some  of  them  do  not 
realize  the  ecclesiastical  dignity  of  their  office,  and  the 
solemn  responsibilities  belonging  to  it.  Practically  they  de- 
cide who  is  to  fill  the  pulpit,  and  his  success  depends  largely 
on  their  wisdom  and  efficiency.  That  the  putting  them  in  a  dis- 
tinct division  of  the  index  may  lead  them  to  appreciate  and 
magnify  their  office  more  adequately,  is  the  end  sought  in  so 
doing.  Some  who  appear  in  this  list  became  ministers  after- 
wards. 

Adams,  C.C.;   105 ,  E.  P.;   106,  125 

J.    C;    97,   141 ,   P.    M.;    86 ,   W.   K.;    73, 

104-5,  124-5,  129,  174..  Affleck,  J.  M.;  128-9.  Aiken,  J.  H.; 
105.  Aitken,  J.;  95.  Akey,  J.  E.;  138.  Aldrich,  C;  106.  All- 
corn,  J.;  135.    Allen,  F.  R.;  121 ,  G.  P.;  146 , 

H.   L.;    117 ,  J.   L.;    44 ,   R.   D.;    122,   141. 

,   S.  K.;    Ill ,   W.;    31,   61,  98.     Alexander, 

T.  M.;  76.  Allerdice,  R.  W.;  104.  Almond,  W.  D.;  29.  Am- 
nions,  A.    L.;    106.     Anderson,   G.;    44 ,   J.    P.;    91. 

,  P.   W.;    52.     Andrews,  A.;    138.     Armstrong,   C.   S.; 

100 ,  G.  B.;    73.     Arter,  J.;    30,  155.     Atkinson,  D.; 

91.     Ayers,  E.;    106. 

Bacon,  Dr.  S.  S.;  111.    Bailey,  J.  M.;  37.    Bain,  J.  H.;  147. 

Baker,    C;     120 ,    H.;     104 ,    J.    M.;     97. 

,  J.  W.;    123 ,  W.  A.;    73.     Baldwin,  Dr.  J. 

A.;    29 ,  W.  C;    101-2.     Ballard,  A.;    15.     Ballinger, 

J.  N.;  127.  Barber,  D.  C;  84.  Barks,  N.;  147.  Barnes,  J.  M.; 
8.     Bamett,  T.  M.;  85.    Barnette,  T.;  38.     Barr,  A.;  14,  19,  20, 

144-5 ,  W.  N.;    145.     Barrett,  A.   M.;    31.     Bartlett. 

H.;  73,  124.  Bates,  V.  C;  90.  Bathgate,  T.;  123.  Bauerlein, 
J.  C;   106.     Baum,  G.;   91,     Bayles,  M.;   16.     Becraft,  W.;   93. 

Behne,  T.  J.;    73,  129.     Bell,  A.  C;    25 ,  C.  D.;    73. 

,  Jesse;  37 ,  J.  M.;  3 ,  J.  W.;  104. 

Benham,  Dr.  C.  S.;  37.  Benner,  W.;  140.  Bentley,  W.;  96. 
Bermond,  G.;    92.     Berry,  J.;    76.     Bigham,  J.;    4,  138.     Bird, 

G.;    12,  64.     Bishop,  W.;    106.     Blackburn,  F.;    120 , 

J.;  120.  Blacklock,  T.;  86.  Blair,  J.;  87.  Blake,  C.  W.;  37. 
Blanchard,  W.  E.;    129,     Blinn,  I.  P.;    124-5.     Blount,   H.;    54. 

Bohart,  H.;  66 ,  J.  H.;  66.    Boleyn,  D.  G.;  112.   Bond, 

J.  W.;    122.     Bonham,   Robt.;    70 ,  Rod.;    70.    Born, 

R.;    20.     Botkin,  J.  W.;    108      ,  O.  P.;    101.     Botsford, 

H.   W.;    97.     Bouton,   S.;    151.     Bowen,  E.;    82.     Bowman,   B. 

U.;  27.     Boyer,  W.  D.;   137.     Boyles,  J.;  85 ,  M.;  70. 

Bragg,  W.  F.;  100.  Brasington,  J.  W.;  77.  Breit,  J.  F.  S.;  27. 
Brewer,  J.  A.;  76.  Bridge  water,  L.;  119.  Brill,  G.;  25.  Brill- 
hart,  D.  S.;  84.  Briscoe,  J.  R.;  140.  Brockman,  J.  R.;  81. 
Brown,  A.;    75,  90 ,  C.;    154 ,  G.  A.;    151. 

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226  INDEX. 

,  G.  C;   100 ,  Jas.;   37 ,  J.  K.;   30. 

,  Prof.  J.  v.;  112-114 ,  Dr.  O.;  47 , 

Reu.;  37 ,  R.  W.;  88 ,  Dr.  T.;  79-80 , 

Dr.   W.   E.;    52 ,    W.    P.;    148.     Brownhill,   F.;    109. 

Brownson,  S.  J.;  151.  Brubaker,  G.;  15,  33.  Buchanan,  R.  A.; 
37.  Bucher,  S.  N.;  44.  Buck,  B.;  76.  Buckbee,  S.;  52.  Buene- 
man,  J.  H.;  37.  Buntz,  J.  W.;  34.  Burbank,  A.  C;  78. 
Burgher,  J.;  126.  Burnett  O.;  129,  130.  Burney,  W.  P.;  37. 
Burns,  J.  P.;  20.  Burr,  Dr.  J.;  68.  Burt,  Prof.  T.  G.;  37. 
Burton,  G.  D.;   118.     Bush,  C.  S.;   75.     Butler,  H.  M.;   73. 

Caldwell,  J.  R.;  20.  Calhoun,  A.  J.;  133,  159.  Callahan, 
A.  M.;  61.  Cameron,  P.;  135.  Campbell,  Dr.  E.  P.;  112.  Can- 
ning,  R.;    90.      Capps,  A.   D.;    4,   77 ,   D.    H.;    77. 

Carmichael,   H.;    82-3.     Carpenter,  D.;    7,  8 ,  G.  H.; 

100.     Carroll,  F.   M.;    135.     Carruthers,  J.  W.;    84-5.    Carson, 

C.  C;    47,  48,  54-5 ,  I.  W.;    138-9 ,  J.  H.; 

24.  'Chamberlain,  C.  S.;  100.     Cliambers,  F.  R.;  8.     Cliapman, 

J.  W.;    37 ,  W.  H.;    95-6.     Chase,  A.   M.;    12 , 

Fred;  37,  183.  Chidester,  F.  P.;  8.  Christensen,  E.  K.;  101. 
Christian,   L.    C;    96.      Clapham,   T.;    153.      Clark,   J.   A.;    38. 

,    J.    N.;    123 ,   Jos.    (four);    8,    12,    29,    32. 

,'p.;    25,  40 ,  R.;    32.     Clonkey,  C.  E.;    131. 

Clute,  N.  F.;  45.  Cochrane,  M.;  119.  Colbert,  Prof.  H.  A.; 
88.  Cole,  S.  B.;  126.  Coleman,  E.;  70.  Colhoun,  J.;  48,54,170. 
Colt,  C.  C;  82.     Combs,  S.  C;  110.     Conley,  J.  H.;   45,  81,  98. 

Conrad,   H.    H.;    147.      Cook,    H.;    60 ,    L.    A.;    112. 

,  T.  B.;  104.     Cooper,  D.;  39,  84,  97 ,  H.  B.; 

91 ,  J.  Y.;    29 ,  Prof.  W.  H.;    37.    Corell, 

J.  W.;  119.    Cornelius,  J.;  92 ,  W.;  91.    Cottrell,  B.; 

95.     Coughlan,  F.  H.;    25.     Coulson,  J.  I.;    84-5.     Courtney,  A. 

C;  12.    Court,  J.  N.;  37.     Cowan,  B.  O.;  101 ,  I.;   52. 

,  J.   G.;    101.     Cowen,   N.;    98.     Cowsert,  A.  B.;    154. 

,   H.    O.;    154.     Craig,   A.   B.;    108 ,   J.;    81. 

Grain,  T.  J.;  60.  Crane,  H.  T.;  88.  Cravens,  N.;  53.  Craw- 
ford, J.  A.;  128.  Creighton,  J.;  37.  Crepps,  J.;  105.  Crider, 
R.;    128.     Crose,  S.;    153.     Crosen,  Prof.  J.  U.;    96.     Crossen, 

C.  64,  76.     Cro'ssett,  J.;  25. ,  W.;  25.     Crozen,  J.  U.; 

127.     Crothers,  G.  D.;   73.     Crum,  L.  W.;   120.     Cummings,  A. 

C.;  121 ,  N.  G.;  121,  Cunningham,  J.  R.;  76 

M.;    57-8.     Currie,  J.;    108.     Curry,  I.  A.;    62-3 ,  R.; 

62 ,   W.   N.;    62,   96,   117. 

Dager,  W.  M.;   37.     Daugherty,  Judge  A.  A.;   117 , 

J.  C;  147-8.   Davey,  W.  H.;  88.   Davidson,  E.  M.;  136 , 

Dr.  S.  C;  116.    Davis,  D.  J.;  61 ,  H.  R.;  8 , 

Jas.;   15 ,  J.  112 ,  W.  T.;  83.    Day,  W.  C; 

37.     Dean,  Prof.  H.  A.;   37 ,  J.  D.;   37.     De  Clue,  J.; 

73-4,  105,  170.  Degraffenreid,  S.  H.;  80.  De  Hart,  E.  E'.;  123. 
De  Lano,  G.;    104.     De  Muth,  J.  A.;    142.     Denlon,  H.  H.;   78. 

Denny,  A.;   12,  25 ,  G.  R.;    26 J.  A.;   12. 

,  R.  K.;  39,  40.    Denney,  A.  C;  82.    Deshler,  C;  143. 


INDEX.  227 

DeWalt,  J.  W.;  81.    Dhume,  J.  C;  112.    Dice,  Dr.  W.  H.;  121- 

2,    141,    153 ,   W.    M.;    148.      Dickerson,   J.    L.;    122. 

Dilliner,  J.  C;   81.     Dimmitt,  E.  L.;    125-6.     Dishner,  H.;   129. 

,  W.;    129.     Dixon,  F.   M.;    32 ,  J.  A.;    154. 

Dobbins,  H.  H.;  20.  Dobson,  W.  D.;  88.  Dodge,  D.  K.;  119. 
Donaldson,  W.;  102-4.  Dorsey,  R.  J.;  57-8.  Dorst,  H.;  138 
Dort;   152.     Do4:y,  S.  L.;   31.     Dougherty,  L.  B.;   12.     Douglass, 

J.;    55,    157.     Duff,   J.   L.;    128-9.     Dunlap,   P.;    29 

R.   K.;    62 ,   Ruff.;    117.     Dunn,   J.   R.;    38-9.     Dyer, 

G.  W.;    139.     Dysart,  J.  47-8,  54-5. 

Eames,  J.  H.;   84.     Earls,  W.  S.;   20,  118.     Eccles,  D.  S.; 

37.     Edmiston,   S.;    56,   67.     Edmonds,  I.;    122 ,   J.; 

122 ,  J.  W.;   90.     Edwards,  J.;   87.     Elder,  J.  T.;   95. 

Elliott,  A.  A.;-  106,  129 ,  B.  D.;  106 ,  F.  B.; 

75 ,  J.  W.;   64-5 ,  R.  (two) ;   11,  12,  14,  16. 

,  W.;    75.     Elmore,  E.   P.;    53.     Ely,  J.;    137.     Ervin, 

W.  E.;    130-1.     Erwin,  J.;    78 ,  R.  F.;    62-3.     Eshel- 

man,  W.;    66.     Estill,   E.;    40.     Evans,   C.   S.;    105 , 

L.  C;   88.     E wing,  J.;  81 ,  Josh.;   55 ,  W. 

J.;    56. 

Paris,  A.;  107-8,  148.    Farmer,  S.  A.;  88 ,  S.  E. 

76.    Farnham,  J.  P.;  88.    Faultinson,  A.;  64.    Fawcett,  W.  H. 

112.     Ferril,  J.  E.;   135 ,  M.  C;   140.     Filson,  J.  H. 

96,  108.  Pinch,  M.;  77.  Findlay,  Prof.  M.  C;  37.  Finlayson 
A.;   88-9.     Finley,  J.  M.;    125-6.     Finney,  H.;    135.     Fisher,  J.: 

123 ,  P.;    81,  170.     Fitch,  Prof.  E.;    37.     Fitzgerald 

D.  F.;  110.  Flanigan,  J.;  104.  Foley,  A.  B.;  140.  Fordyce,  T 
E.;   128-9.     Fore,  D.;    110.     Forgan,  D.  R.;   128.    Fort,  E.;   45-6 

Foster,  J.  R.;  100 ,  R.  B.;   59,  99,  100.     Fox,  D.;   148 

Foy,  T.;  81.    Francis,  E.;  52.     Frazer,  B.  B.  Sen;  115 

T.    D.    (two);     111,    114-5.       .  .  .• ,    W.    W.;     56,    100,    111 

Frazier,   D.;    106 ,   J.   A.:    106 ,  W.;    106 

Fuller,  A.  J.;   76.     Funk,  A.  L.;   119,  120 ,  J.  R.;    8 

,   J.   S.;    64. 

Gallaher,  T.  B.;  97.  Gano,  W.  G.;  37.  Gant,  S.;  100. 
Gardner,  C.  P.;  112.  Garrett,  H.  W.;  81.  Garst,  J.;  156.  Gar- 
tin,  A.  C;  110.    Gaskill,  G.  W.;  111.    Gates,  P.  P.;  128.   Gaugh, 

C.   T.;    48 ,  W.   H.;    106.     Gaver,  J.  W.;    73.     Gaw, 

J.  J.;   12.     Geiger,  D.  T.;   87.     George,  J.  R.;   129.     Gibson,  J. 

M.;    83 ,  W.;    79,  80.     Giffin,  J.;    138.     Gilchrist,  H. 

W.;  52.  Gilladette,  — ;  66.  Gillam,  S.  G.;  88.  Gillidett,  C. 
W.;   76.     Gilmer,  I.;   12.     Gilmore,  R.;  135.     Gladstone,  A.;   99. 

,   W.;    98-9,   116 ,  W.   C;    98-9,   116.     Glick, 

J.  M.;  39.    GoldBberry,  W.  M.;  110.     Good,  M.;  156 , 

W.  H.;  156.    Goodbar,  G.  C;  100.     Goodloe.  R.;  145.     Gordon, 

C.   M.;    57 ,   Dr.   A.;    64-6 ,   T.    B.;    136-7. 

,  Judge  W.  H.;   96.     Graff,  J.  H.;   20,  91.     Gragg,  B.; 

8,  9 ,  J.;  8,  9.  Graham,  C.  H.;  86 ,  J.  D.;  75 , 

S.;   140.     Grant,  J.;   59 ,  J.  W.;  20,  81 ,  W.;  59. 


228  INDEX. 

Graves,  C.  M.;    121 ,  Chas.;    128 ,  G.  S.; 

138 ,  O.;    127.    Gray,  S.  A.;    90-1 ,  T.  A.; 

82 ,  W.  S.;   90.     Green,  C.  A.;   80 ,  C.  E  ; 

40,  84-5 ,  D.  F.;    40 ,  J.  B.;   40.     Gregory, 

A.;   77.     Griffith,  A.;   43 ,  A.  M.;   12,  126 , 

Dr.  N.  C  ;  151.  Griffiths,  T.;  75.  Griswold,  P.;  88.  Gross, 
J.  M.;   64-5.     Gunn,  M.;   76.     Gurney,  E.;   71. 

Hall,  S.;  81 ,  Syl.;  156 ,  T.;  121.     Ham- 

ilton,  W.  C;   77.     Hamniet,  W.;   121.     Hamsher,  W.  M.;   100, 

127.     Handel,  J.  H.;   85.     Hanna,  H.  E.;   154 ,  J.  F.; 

113-4.     Hannah,   R.;    59,   60.     Hanson,   J.;    77.     Hardwick,    P. 

A.;    8,  9.     Harlan,  J.   C;    64.     Harper,  H.  R.;    123 , 

J.;   31.     Harris,  J.  W.;   37.     Harrison,  C.  M.;   61 ,  J. 

B.;    127.     Hart,   A.;    144 ,   W    .O.;    78.     Hartpence, 

C;  45.  Haughawout,  J.  V.;  80.  Hawkins,  P.  H.;  31,  61. 
Hawthorne,  Dr.  J.  A.;  112.  Haxton,  J.;  93.  Hayes,  A.  C; 
106,  117.     Haynes,  A.;    126,  178.     Hays,  T.  K.;    100.     Hayter, 

W.   M.;    53-4.     Hefley,   S.;    92.     Hefner,   S.  H.;    69 , 

W.  L.;  69.    Hendren,  G.;  69 ,  L.;  69 W.; 

69.     Hepburn,  J.  L.;   126 ,  W.  105.     Herbold,  G.  W.; 

12.  Heriot,  E.  G.;  24.  Herriman,  C.  64.  Herron,  J.  K.;  128. 
Hesler,  Dr.   N.;    100.     Hewlett,  Dr.  J.  E.;    47-8,   115.     Hilbus, 

F.  W.;  120.    Hill,  L.  M.;  92 ,  R.  W.;  100 , 

S.  T.;  59,  60.  Hills,  F.  S.;  102.  Hillyard,  M.  Y.;  69.  Hind- 
man,  W.H.;  153.  Hinkle,  L.;  37.  Hoblitzell,  W.;  100.  HodgeB, 
J.  J.;  120 ,  R.  T.;  120 S.;  8,  10.  Hoff- 
man, C.  A.;  130.  Hoggett,  E.  T.;  77.  Hogland,  J.;  110.  Holt, 
A.;  126.  Holter,  B.  B.;  37.  Homon,  G.  S.;  83.  Hooper,  W. 
P.;  68,  121.  Hornbeak,  Prof.  J.  W.;  37.  Hotaling,  G.  H.;  104-5, 
116.     Hotchkin,   O.   S.;    88.     Houchin,   C.   D.;    80.     Houghton, 

1.;    80,  92.     Houston,  N.;    58.     Howard,   T.  B.;    91 , 

W.  W.;   81.     Howell,  W.  M;;   88 ,  M.  K.;  76 , 

N.;  64.  Howitt,  J.;  70.  Hubbard,  W.;  58.  Hufft,  W.  T.'; 
126.     Huggins,  J.  W.;    112.     Hughes,  E.;    26-7.     Hulse,  G.  T.; 

24.     Hummer,  D.;    61.     Hunter,  A.  M.;   Ill ,  E.  K.; 

104 ,  Guy;   12C' ,  Dr.  J.  A.;   153.     Hurlburt, 

I.;    80,  92.     Houston,  N.;    38.     Howard,  T.  B.;    91 , 

E.;   69. 

Inskeep,  W.;  12.    Irwin,  F.;  43 ,  R.;  37 , 

S.;    54. 

Jack,  W.;    12.     Jackson,   B.   S.;    52 ,Jos.;    88. 

,   R.;    88-9.     James,   E.   J.;    75.     Jameson,   D.   F.;    22, 

110-1.  January,  J.  E.;  88.  Jesse,  D.  B.;  135.  Jewell,  S.  P.; 
100,  111,  117.     Johnson,  C.  B.;   123 ,  E.;   70 , 

G.  M.;  73 ,  R.  P.;  105.    Johnston,  G.  M.;   37 

R    P.;    104 S.;    129 ,  W.  E.;   135.     Jones, 

Dr.    I.   B.;    156 ,   J.   K.;    56 ,   Q.    T.;    119. 

,  T.  B.;    63 ,  S.;    120 ,  W.  Y.;    37. 

Judy,  And.;  134-5 ,  B.  F.;  135 ,  S.  E.;  111. 


INDEX.  229 

Kahm,  F.;  37.  Keeves,  J.  A.;  44.  Kehn,  H.  A.;  37. 
Keith,  R.  F.;  104.  Kelso,  A.  W.;  116.  Kennedy,  A.  C;  105. 
Keplar,  F.  P.;  58-9.  Kerns,  S.;  146.  Kerr,  W.  R.;  20.  Kim- 
ball, G.  B.;   59 ,  L.  A.;   112.     Kipp,  P.  H.;  81.     Kirk- 

patrick,  R.  B.;    32 ,  T.;    127 ,  W.  C;    127. 

Kleinpeter,  W.  A.;   44.     Knadler,  W.  E.;   91.     Knapp,  Prof.  G. 

A.;    37.     Knappenberger,  E.;    38.     Knauer,  A.;    60 , 

C.  L.;   60.     Krom,  C;   146.     Kurtz,  C;   44.     Kuyler,  J.;   112. 

Lafferty,  J.  L.;  104.  Laffoon,  E.;  26.  Laipple,  J.;  12. 
Laird,  J.  H.;  117,  149.  Lamar,  J.;  150.  Lambrite,  J.;  71. 
Landers,  J.  L.;  111.  Landis,  I.;  33-4.  Laning,  J.;  38.  Lank- 
ford,  E.;  45.  Lansing,  H.;  63.  Lawhead,  D.  E.;  128.  Lawrence, 
Prof.  J.  H.;  37.     Lawson,  M.;  64.     Lee,  L.  W.;  84-5.     Leonard, 

Judge  J.  C;   55-6,  115.     Lewis,  G.  W.;   54 ,  W.  G.; 

76.      Liggett,   J.;    144.      Lightner,    E'.    C;    104.      Lile,    G.;    60. 

,  H.  W.;  59-60 ,  J.;  60 ,  W.  P.;  60. 

Liller,  A.;    149.     Lindley,  Dr.  W.  T.;    80.     Linthacum,  T.;    76. 

Linville,   P.;    140.     Littell,   G.   W.   C;    110 ,   W.   B.; 

110.  Litzenberg,  W.;  150.  Loomis,  Dr.  G.  M.;  82.  Loring, 
W.  E.;  151.  Loughrey,  A.;  8.  Love,  J.;  12,  63.  Low,  M.; 
22.  Lucas,  B.  F.;  57,  116.  Luckhardt,  G.  P.;  44,  96.  Lud- 
ington,  S.  C;  98.  Lynch,  J.  C;  106.  Lynn,  J.  C;  108. 
,  R.;    96,  107-8,  161. 

McAfee,  H.  B.;   37-8 ,  J.  E.;  37 ,  Pres. 

L.  M.;   37,  187.     McAnulty,  J.  A.;   88.     McCammon,  J.  P.;    58. 

,  R.   M.;    55,   58.     McCandliss,   J.   C;    138.     McClain, 

B.   F.;    39 ,  J.   D.;    106 ,   J.   O.;    125,   129. 

McClung,  W.  H.;   99,  100^.     McClure,  C;   123 ,  J.;   123. 

McCollum,  A.;   59 ,  M.;   76.     McOonkey,  A.  G.;   56-7. 

,  G.;    21.     McCbnnell,  J.;    48.     McCorkle,   Dr.   A.   L.; 

88-9 ,  E.  D.;    88.     McCoy,   C.  R.;    115.     McCrea,  L; 

140.     MoCroskey,  J.  D.;   32.     McCully,  S.;    147.     McDaniel,  G. 

E.;    106.     McDonald,  A.;    27 ,  D.   C;    80 , 

H.  B.;    14,  20 ,  R.  W.;    115.     McDowell,  W.  A.;    61. 

McGaughey,  J.  G.;    122.     McGee,  G.  K.  W.;    29 ,  J. 

W.;    53 ,   W.   F.;    53.      McGinnis,   J.    H.;    112.     Mc- 

Henry,  W.;    120.     McHugh,  D.;    127-8.     McKay,  C;    129.     Mc- 

Kee,  J.;  147 ,  Jos.;  88 ,  T.  H.;  84 , 

W.    W.;    84-5.      McKenzie,    P.;    108.      McKibben,    J.    M.;    126. 

McKinlay,  G.  A.;    151.     McKinley,  F.  D.;    128 ,  W.; 

128.  McKinney,  M.;  70.  McKissick,  J.;  8.  McLaughlin,  C. 
S.;  119.  McLaury,  R.  M.;  140.  McMillan,  W.  J.;  85-6.  Mc- 
Naughton,  J.;  119.  McNeil,  J.;  64.  McPheeters,  R.  A.;  98. 
McRuer,   J.   T.;    29.     McWilliams,   J.;    11,   12.     Magers,   Prof. 

R.  v.;   37 ,  T.  C;   25.     Maitland,  J.  S.;   24.     Majors, 

A.;   64.     Manley,  S.  S.;   69,  70.     Mark,  D.  L;   146.     Markle,  E. 

T.;   73.     Markt,  F.  E.;    44.     Marquis,  G.  W.;   107-8 , 

R.;   45.     Marsh,  J.  T.;    12 ,  M.;    12.     Martin,  A.  J.; 

135 ,   E.;    144 ,   F.   A.;    80 ,    G. 

C;    8 ,  H.  E.;    116 ,  J.  F.;    54 , 


230  INDEX. 

J.    R.;    73.      M,a'ssingill,    W.    H.;    62.      Matchett,    H.    C;    45. 

,  J.   N.;    45.     Matthews,   H.   A.;    93-4,   106.     Mattoon, 

Prof.  A.  M.;   37.     Mattox,  H.;  54.      Maurer,  P.;  66.     Maxwell, 

C;  27 ,  Logan;  26,  93-5 ,  R.  P.;  73 , 

S.;  99 ,  W.  D.;  122.   Mayes,  S.  M.;  95.    Means,  Abi.; 

4,  38,  154.     ,  A.;    38.     Melton,  E.  R.;    135.     Menifee. 

J.  N.;    44.     Merchant,  G.;    37.     Meyer,   C.  F.;    125 , 

J.;    43,    101,   162.     Millan,   W.;    85.     Miller,    C.   M.;    106,   129. 

,  J.  H.;  146 ,  J.  W.;  61 ,  W.;   112. 

,  W.  O.;   113-4.     Milligan,  W.;   69.     Millsted,  F.;   109. 

Minnick,  A.  C;   58 ,  J.  C;  58 ,  J.  R.;   58. 

Mitchell,  A.;  24.  Mitchelhill,  B.;  137.  Moberly,  H.  B.;  40. 
Mockbee,  W.;    69.     Modrel,  W.;   11,  12.     Moffett,  G.  H;.  129. 

Monroe,  A.  M.;   84.     Montgomery,  D.  C.;   55 ,  Jas.; 

27 ,  J.  A.;    106 ,  R.;    4,  146.     Moore,  E.; 

95 ,  H.  L.;   8 ,  R.  S.;   64-5.     Moorman,  A. 

P.;   93.     Morgan,  A.;   76 ,  A.  M.;   106 ,  B.; 

82 ,  G.;    106-7 ,  J.  L.;    80.     Morrison,  Dr. 

J.  B.;   88 ,  W.  P.;   128.     Morrow,  Jas.;   40 

J.  M.;   42-3 ,  John;   26 ,  S.;    26 , 

W.  W.;  120.  Morse,  J.  R.;  80.  Morton,  J.;  78.  Mosier,  G. 
A.;   130.     Mobs,  L.  H.;   136.     Moulton,  L.  T.;   86.     Moyes,  G.; 

117-8 ,  G.  A.;    118.     Muir,  J.  B.;    91 ,  R.; 

52,  91,  143.     Mullendore,  J.;  150.     Munson,  L.  P.;   70.     Murray, 

A.;   69 ,  J.  H.;   44 ,  N.  F.;   44,  146 , 

Dr.  R.  W.;   75 ,  W.;   69,  102 ,  Wm.;   42. 

Musselman,    H.;    100.      Musser,    O.;    123.      Myers,    B.    L.;    37. 

,  L.;   90 ,  S;    90-1.     Mylar,  J.;  45-6 , 

R.  T.;   97.     Myles,  J.  H.;   140. 

Nauman,  J.R.;  135 ,  J.  W.;     Ill ,  P.  S.;  135.  Nee- 

ly,  J.  H.;  135.  Neff,  Dr.  D.;  118-9.  Neiderhouser,  C;  134-5.  Nellis, 
J.  J.;  75.  Nelson,  Prof.  W.  S.;  37.  Newman,  J.;  58.  Nichols, 
W.;    16.      Nickles,   W.;    52.      Nielson,    H.;    73.      Noel,    H.   K.; 

10^8,  128.     Norris,  P.;    95.     Nuckols,  J.;   27 ,  W.  R., 

54.     Nye,  J.  A.;    73. 

Ohlhausen,  W.;  25.  Onstalt,  R.;  95.  Orchard,  T.';  88. 
Orr,  D.  J.;  37.  Osgood,  E.  S.;  64.  Outcalt,  P.;  64.  Owen, 
C.  L.;    110 ,   J.   W.;    22,    57,   101. 

Painter,  S.  D.;   135 ,  W.  R.;   88-9.     Paisley,  T.; 

40.     Palmer,  C.  F.;   104 ,  W.;   61 ,  W.  U; 

37,   185.     Parcells,   C.   W.;    106.     Park,   Hon.   G.   S.;    34-7,   51, 

163-5,  179,  180-1.    Parrott,  J.  V.;    24.  Patterson,  J.;   53 , 

R.  A.;  57.     Patton,  C.  O.;   57-8 ,  I.  G.;   21 , 

J.  C;   21-3 -.  .,  W.  A.;   21-3,  116.     Paxton,  W.  M.;28-9. 

Peck,  J.  D.;  92.  Pemberton,  R.;  139.  Pence,  P.;  84.  Pen- 
nington, W.  H.;   129.    Perry,  L.  T.;    77 ,  W. C;    77. 

Peter,  H.;   122 ,    Dr.  H.  W.;   43.     Petree,  J.  A.;   154 

Pettus,  D.  W.;  80.  Petty,  F.  M.;  88.  Peugh,  P.  T.;  157. 
Phillips,  A.   C;    88.     Pickell,  W.  F.;    80.     Pickett,  A.  W.;    32. 


.,  S.  A.; 

:   123.     Riley, 

12.     ... 

,  W.  L.; 

.,  T.  D.; 

37.     RO'bert- 

116.      .  . 

,   Jeff.; 

,   J.    C;    138. 

0 

....—;    152. 

INDEX.  231 

'. .,  E.;  133.     Pile,  J.  S.;   76.     Pipkin,  Dr.  C;   60-1,  146-7. 

Platter,  C.  C;   142.     Plotner,  J.  A.;   73.     Plummer,  A.  S.;   140. 

..,  E.  D.;125.     Poage,  S.  D.  B.;   31,  61,  146 

W.   C;    31.  Poland,  E.  G.;    106.     Poor,  A.;    98 ,  W. 

C;    98.      Porterfield,    J.    A.;    91 ,    J.    W.;    91,    117. 

Powell,  M.  C;   115-6.     Power,  J.  C;   57.     Praisewater,  B.  F.; 

101 ,  S.;   101.     Prather,  J.;  127.     Pratt,  Prof.  L.  S.; 

37.     Preston,  J.;   85.     Price,  A.  J.;    101 T.  L.;    44. 

Pritchard,  L.;   95.     Proud,  S.  E.;    110 T.  H.;   110. 

Prouse,  E.  A.;   37.     Pyie,  W.  A.;   27.     Pyne,  W.  D.;   56. 

Rannels,  S.;  44.  Ratlibun,  J.  A.;  118-9.  Rawson,  J.  W.; 
81.  Rea,  S.  C;  88.  Reed,  G.  S.;  64-5.  Reiminschneider,  A.; 
120.     Renner,   G.    S.;    149.     Reynold,   N.   E.;    112.     Reynolds, 

F.  H.;    73. ,  W.  L.;    118.     Rice,  Col.  J.;    153.     Riffe, 

W.  L.;   111.     Riggs,  J.  F.;   106 

F.  E.;   66.     Risk,  S.  C;  138-9.    Robb,  J. 

105.     Roberts,  H.     M.;   37,  184 

son.  A.;    3,   133,   165 ,  J.   T.; 

135.      Robinson,    H.    K.    S.;    100,    142. 

,  S.;    139 ,  W.;   60,  100. 

Rodecker,  G.;  39.  Rodgers,  W.  H.;  15,  Rohrer,  U.;  20,  144. 
Rolofson,  T.  F.;  110.  Rose,  S.  P.;  140.  Ross,  E.  M.;  122. 
Roughmont,  A.  L.;  78.  Roup,  I.;  93.  Rowland,  A.  T.;  135. 
Russell,  C.  C;  93 ,  C.  G.;  143. 

Sallee,  A.   C;    106.     Salsbury,  A.;    78,  92.     Sampson,  W. 

P.;  131.     Samuel,  E.  M.;   12 ,  J.  W.;   64-5.     Sanders, 

J.;    32 ,  W.  P.;    49,   114 ,  W.  J.;    73,   129. 

Sandusky,  E.  W.;  130.  Sawyer,  R.  G.;  61.  Sawyers,  W.  O.; 
88.     Sayle,  E.   O.;    116.     Schnatterly,  H.   L.;    76.     Schreiber, 

F.  L.;  73.     Scott,  A.;  101-2 ,  Prof.  E.  J.;   12 

James   (two);    44,  101-2,  119 ,  J.  M.;    88 , 

T.;  101-2.  Schell,  J.;  20.  Scholl,  W.  R.;  52.  Schultz,  J.; 
4.  Scovill,  H.;  82.  Scudder,  H.  C;  26.  Segrist,  J.;  54. 
Selby,  A.  J.;  61.  Shackelford,  R.  25.  Sharrocks,  A.  M.;  37. 
Sbelton,  J.   C;    126.     Shepard,   R.   W.;    70.     Shepherd,  J.   C; 

61.      Shepperson,    C;    96.      Sherwood,    C.    C;    126 , 

W.  M.;    73,   129.     Shewey,  G.   D.;    8,   9 ,   J.   B.;    77. 

Shields,    D.;    90.      ,    W.;    127.     Shiflett,    D.    F.;    127. 

Shipley,    L.   A.;    111.      Shults,    J.    H.;    81.      Sifers,    S.    S.;    81. 

,  W.  H.;   146.   Siler,   E.;    139 ,  P.;   139.     Sils- 

bee,  H.  E.;  81.     Simmons,  J.;   91.     Simpson,  T.  C;  38.     Siner^ 
J.;    150.     Singleton,   W.   A.;    27,   150.     Skinner,   S.  W.;    84-5. 
Slade,    W.    P.;    54.      Slaybaugh,    C;    83.      Sloan,    A.;    29,    30. 

Smiley,  A.;    48,  157 ,  E.  O.;    64-5 ,  J.  A.; 

137 ,  Jos.;    137.     Smith,   Dr.   C.   N.;    100 .-, 

B.  M.;    120 ,  F.  C;    53 ,  G.;    81 ,  Dr. 

H.;    16 ,    Col.    J.    A.;    139 ,    J.    B.;     110. 

J.  W.;    53 ,  Jed.;    43 ,  Jos.  A.; 

43 ,  M.  H.;    127 ,  M.   M.;    100 , 

O.  L.;  112 ,  T.;   69 ,  T.  J.;  57,  112 , 


232  INDEX. 

W.    E.;    20 ,   W.   J.;    109.     Smothers,   W.    C;    112. 

Snider,  J.  W.;    109 ,  J.  W.;    119.     Snyder,  H.;    153. 

Speaker,  E.   R.;    39.    Speer,   J.   A.;    129.    Spivey,   L.   M.;    119. 

,   W.;    119.      Staats,   F.   B.;    30-1.      Stagg,   W.    C;    77. 

,   W.    E.;    77.      Staggs,    P.;    139.      ,   W.;    139. 

Stalder,    J.;    116.      Staley,    Prof.    J.;    12.      Stalling,    H.;    138. 

Stanley,  J.  B.;   88.    Starrett,  J.  M.;   83,  Steel,  H.  A.;  81 , 

R.   W.;    88-9.     Stephens,   Prof.   J.   W.;    37 ,   R.;    24. 

,  R.  R.;    34,  37.     Stephenson,  J.  J;.  127.     Sterne,  C; 

88.     Sterritt,  W.;    112.     Stevens,  J.  F.;    84 ,  R.  G.; 

23-4.     Stevenson,   A.;    86 ,  E.   B.;    37.     Stewart,   E. 

C;   80 ,  J.  C;  105 ,  R.;  32 ,  S.; 

118.     Stockton,  H.  C;  45-6,  80-1.     Stokes,  J.;  8 T.; 

8.     Stoller,  Dr.  R.  V.;   80.     Stone,  J.  A.;   69 ,  T.  E.; 

76.  Story,  J.  H.;  131.  Strain,  J.;  105.  Stratford,  C.  W.;  40. 
Strough,  J.;  135.  Stuart,  R.  H.;  20.  Sublette,  T.;  12.  Swain, 
J.  R.;   29,  142.     Sweeney,  J.  K.;    90. 

Tait,  Jas.;    97,   123.     Taylor,  E.  R.;    66 ,  J.  L. 

66 ,    S.    C;    129. ,   W.;    26 ,   W 

B.;    123.    Teagarden,  E.  B.;    122.    Tennant,  J.;    119.    Terhune 

J.;   27.     Thomas,  J.  C;   122.     Thompson,  G.  W.;   8 

J.;  110,  117 ,  M.;  27 ,  W.  R.;  102 

W.  Z.;  84.  Thwing,  L.  R.;  92.  Tibbals,  Prof.  W.  H.;  37 
Tilford,  S.;  8.  Tillery,  A.;  8.  Todd,  D.  R.;  37.  Torrance 
O.  P.;  88,  125,  129.  Town,  S.  H.;  80,  92.  Towne,  S.  M.;  92, 
Trabue,  C.   C;    12.     Travis,  W.   B.;    108.     Trigg,   H.   S.;    127 

Trimble,  W.  L.;  12.     Tritt,  G.;  44 ,  J.  D.;  44.  Trout 

wine,  C;    60.     Trussell,  T.  H.;    75,  121-2,  141.    Tuggle,  G.  B 
40.     Turner,   S.  K.;    88.     Tyler,  J.  R.;    24.     Tyner,  J.   H.;    20. 
,  P.  G.;    101. 

Upton,  W.  L.;  129. 

Vagel,   P.;    59.     Van  Buskirk,  A.;    44.     Van   der  Veer,  J. 

D.;    86.     Vaughn,  F.  J.;    135 ,  T.  B.;    83.     Venably, 

J.;    32.     Venard,  G.   H.;    37 ,  L.   G.;    122.     Vincent, 

J.  G.;   155.     Virden,  J.  H.;   57 ,  J.  W.;   119.     Virtue, 

T.;    45.     Vogelgesang,  T.  J.;    61.     Voss,  W.  E.;    37. 

Walker,  B.;    148-9 ,  H.  T.;   20 ,  J.  D 

106 ,  W.  H.;   88 ,  W.  S.;    76.     Walkup,  H 

R.;  148-9.    Wallace,  E.  M.;  128 ,  H.;  98-9 

S.;    25 ,  W.;   155.     Ward,  C.   C;    61,  112 

F.;    78 ,  G.;    85 ,   H.;    53 ,  Jos 

54.     Warnock,   J.;    153.     Waters,  J.  F.;    20.     Watson,  J.  W 
76-7.     Watt,  R.;   37.     Waugh,  J.;   99,  100.     Wayman,  D.  P.;   58 

,  H.  M.;  58.    Weaver,  S.;  128.    Webb,  J.;  120 

W.;    12.     Weir,  J.;    95 ,   M.   J.;    81.     Wells,   C;    88 

Welch,  A.  C.;  84 ,  B.;  84.    Wertz,  K.;  60 

T.  J.;    60.     West,  J.   M.;    110 ,  J.  K.;    122       Wett 

W.  H.;   100.     Wetzel,  R.;    31.     Wharton,  S.  D.;   43.     Wheeler 


INDEX, 


233 


E.  J.;  81.     White,  E.  H.;  117. 


,  J.   M.;    104. 


136. 


K. 


106. 


J.   S.;    146. 

w.     ii.';    45! 

Whitsett,   G. 

98.    Whitton, 

64.     Wilcox, 

45.     Wilkin- 


C.  L.;   116 

J.   H.;    57,  85-7. 

,  J.  W 

L.;       132 ,   R.;       153 

,   W.   K.;    153.     WMteford,  J.  A.;    137. 

W.;  93.     Whitsitt,  J.  H.;  98 ,  R.  H. 

W.;    91.     Wiedner,   T.   J.;    76.     Wikoff,    C.   F. 

M.  H.;    64-5.     Wilkerson,  W.;    135.     Wilkin,  T 

son,  F.;    32 ,   G.;    45 ,   W.   C;    32.     Will, 

G.   S.;    78,   80,  92.     Williams,   G,  W.;    146 ,   J.;    115. 

,    J.    G.;    91.      Wilmot,    B.    A.;    122.      Wilson,    C.    26. 

C;    107-8,   148 ,  I.   A.;    156 , 

,  J.  L.;  154 ,  R.  R.;  122 , 

,  T.;    92 W.;    84 , 

W.  R.;    88.    Winchell,   Prof.   C.   F.;    37. 

,  H.  H.;  37.   Wiscarver,  H.;  52.    Wolfe,  Prof.  A.  L.;  37, 

187.     Wood,  C.  K.;    85 ,  W.  T.;    12.     Woods,  P.  H.; 

93.     Woodford,  H.  F.;   64-5.     Woodhouse,  J.;   150.     Worst,  G.; 

88.     Wray,  A.  B.;    70.     Wright,  A.;    90 ,  Dr.  J.   B.; 

129 ,   Dr.   J.   H.;    91 ,  J.   W.;    83.     V/ylie, 

J.   L,;    32,   121 ,  W.  A.;    32.     Wynkoop,  D.   M.;    37. 

Wynn,  J.  D.;   59 ,  M.  C.  A.;   59. 

Yates,    J.    M.;    146.      Youel,    W.    T.;    62.      Young,    D.    A.; 
134-5 ,  J.  H.;    95 ,  J.  S.;    21-2,  67. 


,   H. 

J.  A.;  148. 
S.  P.;    79-80. 
Wm.:    150. 


Zook,  W.;   43,  48,  162.     Zugg,  F.  R.;   37. 


234  INDEX. 


MINISTERS. 

Adams,  E.  J.;  69,  76.  Adkins,  J.  R.;  53,  59,  69,  100,  109. 
Akey.  J.  B.;  70.  Albria^ht,  H.  P.;  32.  Alderson,  S.  B.;  107, 
189.     Alexander,  H.  P.;    66,  101,  128.  190.     Allen,  J.  R.;   4,  S, 

158 ,  J.  W.;    84,  111-2,  148 ,  M.;    158 , 

O.  D.;   4,  8,  77,  111,  134-5,  138,  140,  145,  154,  158,  190 , 

R.  H.;  12,  16,  32,  42 ,  T.;  8.     Anderson,  M.  L.;   57,  66, 

70,   85,   91,  100,   138,    169,   170,   172,   190 ,   W.   H.;    129. 

Armstrong,  C.  C;  86,  89,  94,  99,  112,  118,  190 ,  H.  P.; 

186 ,  T.  C;    78,  80,  90,  92,  122,  190.     Asdale,  W.;    31, 

61-2,    117,    191.      Aston,    E.;     105.      Aughey,    J.    H.;     24,    191. 

Barbee,  J.;  42,  126-7.    Barksdale,  W.  E.;   118.    Barnes,  E. 

D.;   76,  191 ,  J.  C;   40,  55,  68 ,R.  H.;   113,  137. 

Biarnett,  I.  W.;    122.     Barr,  J.   E.;    129.     Beale,  W.;    62,  117. 

Beard,  J.  D.;    75,   90,  141,  144,  153,   169,  172,   191 ,  R. 

J.;   94,  111.     Beebe,  L.  J.;   186 ,  S.  J.  M.;    155.     Bell, 

J.   M.;    117,   156 ,    M.    T.;    120.     Belt,   S.   D.;    53,   146. 

Benson,   A.   W.;    66,   100,   107.     Berry,  F.   P.;    88,    191.    Bible, 

F.  W.;   184,  192.     Bierkemper,  C.  H.;   185.     Billingsley,  A.  S.; 

62.     Bishop,  W.  F.;  12,  125.    Blair,  G.  A.;   136 ,  H.  E.; 

185,  192.  Blayney,  C.  P.;  66,  78,  92,  101-2.  118-9,  128,  173,  192. 
BDggs,  W.  E.;    50.     Boude,  H.  B.;    42,  121.     Boyd,  E.  A.;    89. 

Boyer,  D.  M.;   8,  28,  70,  118,  120,  134,  137,  187 ,  J.  T.; 

75,  98,  123,  192.  Bradley,  W.  F.;  69,  75.  Bradshaw,  W.  F.; 
126.     Brokaw,  H.;   185.     Brown,  D.;   100,  106-7,  111-2,  115,  132, 

172-3,   192 ,   H.  A.;    69,   102,   119,  130,   192 ,   J. 

E.;    106 ,    R.    L.;    42,    127 ,    R.    H.;    186,    193. 

T.;   21.     Browning,  W.  E.;   184.     Brownlee,  E.  S.;   104, 

193.     Buchanan,   A.   M.;    58 ,    R.   A.;    184,    193.     Bull, 

E.  H.;    57,  72,  78,  92,  116,  173,  193.     Bullard,  H.;   55,  105,  124, 

169,  170,  193 ,  H.  N.;    100,  174,  175-6,  193.     Burkhart, 

A.  L.;    59 ,  S.  D.;    60.     Bushnell,  D.  E.;    136.     Byram, 

A.  B.;    100-1,  118,  194. 

Caldwell,    D.;     40 J.    M.;     12 ,    W.    E.; 

66,    78,    92,    101,    128,    173,    194.      Calhoun,    J.;     129 , 

T.;     159.       Campbell,     E.     E.;     188 ,    J.     M.;     32, 

56,  121 ,   R.   S.;    49,  114.     Canfield,  J.   M.;    40,  42,  44. 

,  R.;   42.     Cardy,  K.  J.;   86,  105,  194.     Carpenter,  J.  B.; 

42,  121.     Carson,  E.  A.;    14-8,  21,  23,  26,  169 ,  R.   M.; 

89 ,  W.;   194.     Carter,  W.  C;  77,  134,  149,  156.     Case, 

G.  R.;  75,  90,  122.     Chadeayne,  H.;   84,  102.     Chamberlin,  H.; 

11.      Chivington,   I.;    38-9,   98.      Clark,   J.;    7 ,   W.   H.; 

174,194 ,  W.  J.;    184,  195 ,  W.;    53-4 , 

W.  L.  S.;  24.  Clarkson,  J.  F.;  83,  86,  97-8,  107,  118.  Coen, 
A.;  69,  76,  109.  Cook,  R.  A.;  42.  Cooper,  A.  T.;  58,  60. 
Cortner,  J.  E.;    149.     Coulter,  D.;    12,   32,  42.     Cowan,  E.  P.; 

48 ,  H.  W.;   124-5,  195.     Cox,  J.  P.;   80.     Craig,  R.  H.; 

83,  136,  146.  Crane,  J.  I.;  89,  195.  Cravens,  W.  A.;  20,  57, 
78,  81,  89,  91-2,  123,  173,  195.     Crawford,  G.  M.;    21,  15.5,  159. 


INDEX.  236 

J.  M.;    24,  87,  102,  169,  170,  172 J.  W.;    103. 

Creighton,  J.;    103,  195 ,  T.  M.;    85.     Cruikshank,  R. 

C;    20,    101,    144.      Cnitchfield,   A.;    53.      Cummings,   W.   H.; 

48,  96.     Cunningliam,  D.;    56 ,  J.  M.;   183 ,  L. 

W.;  192.  Currie,  J.  A.;  96,  108,  111,  195.  Curtis,  J.  T.;  95, 
174,  196. 

Dager,    W.    M.;     183,    196.      Davies,    D.    C;     31,    61,    84, 

196.     Davis,   C.  A.;    7,  8 ,   F.;    53 ,  J.   F.;    59. 

,  W.  S.;    60,  99.     Dearing,  H.  B.;    69.     De  Long,  A.  B.; 

105.  Derr,  C.  H.;  184,  196.  Dickson,  W.;  12,  40,  68.  Dins- 
more,  F.  B.;    147,  152,  196.     Divinia,  S.  T.;    8,  58,  77,  95,  110, 

120,  123,  140,  153.    Dixon,  J.  H.;  89 ,  W.;  32.     Dobyns, 

W.  R.;  50,  126.  Dodd,  L.;  96,  107,  172.  Dodge,  N.  B.;  11. 
Donnel!,  T.;  2.  Doole,  W.  I.;  80,  173,  196.  Doran,  J.  H.; 
136.  Dougherty,  M.  R;  60,  100,  123,  145,  197.  Duff,  G.  B.; 
127,  197.  Dunbar,  J.;  28.  Duncan,  J.;  62,  96,  117,  134,  197. 
Dupuy,  L.  H.;  89,  115.  Durao,  J.  F;  184.  Duvall,  J.  W.; 
76.    Dykes,  J.;  22. 

Edgar,  A.  E.;    185 ,   S.   L.;    53.     Edwiards,   C.  B.; 

84,  98,  197.  Eller,  M.  P.;  28.  Emerson,  F.  C;  183,  197. 
Engler,  G.  I.;  28,  122,  Eppler,  H.;  4,  26-7,  38,  160,  197.  Evans, 
S.;    37,  174,  197. 

Fackler,  J.  G.;  8,  12,  29,  42,  48-9,  66.  Faris,  P. 
P.;  184.  Farr,  J.  W.  B.;  136.  Farrand,  E.  S.;  81, 
118,     198.       Fetterolf,     J.     F.;     63-4,     198.       Fislier,     H.     W.; 

27,    135,    155 ,    J.    E.;    17 ,    S.    G.;    84,    100-1, 

Flint,  T.;    2.     Flow,  J.  E.;    25,  198.     Foreman,  J.  P.;    12,  32, 

40,  62,  68 ,  W.  S.;    56,  115.     Forman,  A.  P.;    32,  48-9, 

62,  68 ,   C.  P.;    121.     Foster,  E.  P.;    37,  172.     Fowler, 

A.;  103.  Fox,  J.  P.;  40,  68,  79,  83,  147.  Foy,  J.;  81,  198. 
France,  J.  H.;  47,  81,  84,  97,  172,  198.  French,  J.  W.;  53. 
58-9,  60,  76,  100.  Froman,  J.;  8,  39,  77,  95,  111,  120,  136,  154, 
198. 

Gallagher,  F.  R.;  33.  Garvin,  J.  F.;  103.  Gaston,  M.  E.; 
69.  Gauss,  O.  W.;  2,  121,  199.  Gehrett,  J.  A.;  90.  Gerhard, 
J.  A.;  88.  Gibson,  J.  P.;  129.  Giddings,  S.;  2.  Gilkerson, 
J.  C;  117,  173.  Gill,  W.  H.;  48,  170,  172.  Gillespie,  J.;  31, 
61,  172,  199.  Gillette,  J.  M.;  199.  Glendenning,  A.;  92.  Glick, 
J.  M.;  111.  Gloeckner,  W.  F;  186.  Godsman,  C.  J.;  185. 
Goodale,  A.  B.;    98,   103,   118,   146,   172,   199.     Gourley,   J.   S.; 

84.    Green,  A.  W.;  137 ,  J.  M.;  83,  169 ,  J.  N.; 

81 ,  J.  P.;   80,  173.     Griffin,  S.  W.;  89.     Griffith,  E.  J.; 

129.  Grossman,  F.  W.;  57,  70,  86,  118,  2001  Guthrie,  A.;  27, 
53,   140. 

Hall-Quest,  A.   L.;    106,   200.     Hamilton,   C.   H.;    186,   200. 

,  W.;    43.     Hancock,  J.;    12.     Hanna,  J.  C;    57,  81,  86. 

200.  Harbison,  J.  B.;  44.  Hardin,  S.  S.;  53,  59,  69,  100, 
146,  200.     Hardwick,  T.  H.;    7.     Harmon,  A.  J.;    122.     Harold. 


236  •  INDEX. 

W.    S.;    131,    200.      Harris,    J.    W.;    ISCT ,    R.;    56,    63, 

80.     Harrison,   W.    H.;    115.     Hatfield,   J.    H.;    107,    173,   201. 

,    W.    J.;    64.      Hawkes,    J.;    90.      Hawley,    G.    H.;    135, 

154.  Haydon,  A.  P.;  111.  Hayes,  C.  E.;  58,  95,  110,  136,  201. 
,  L.  F.;  27,  95,  100,  110.1,  122-3,  134-5,  140,  155.  Hay- 
maker, E.  G.;  83,  201.  Heckman;  C.  H.;  168.  Hembree, 
C.   C;    107.     Hendee,   A.    M.;    123.     Henderson,   A.   W.;    136, 

201 ,    J.    T.;    201 ,    M.    W.;     30-1.      Hendrick, 

T.  J.;  50.  Henshaw,  L.;  69,  76.  Hepburn,  T.  H.;  105,  201. 
Herbert,  C.   D.;    34.     Herndon,  F.   S.;    185.     Herr,  A.   B.;    57, 

86,    202.      Hickman,    F.    D.    P.;     183,    202 ,    G.;     55. 

Higgins,  C.  W.;  97,  118,  151,  169,  202.     Hill,    J.  B.;  2 , 

J.   J.;    12 ,   T.;    35.     Hillis,   W.   H.;    48.     Hillman,   T. 

M.;  105,  112.  Hindman,  D.  R.;  202.  Hobbs,  A.  B.;  21. 
Hodges,    C.    B.;    7,    8,    10,    120,    139.      Holdcroft,    J.    G.;    185. 

Hood,   J.;    75 ,  J.   T.;    27,   76,  122.     Houston,  W.   M.; 

99.      Hughes,    J.   A.    D.;    32,   62,    68,   84,    121 ,    M.;    27. 

Hunter,  J.  H.;   81,  84,  151.     Huston,  J.;   57,  99,  153. 

Ilsley,   W.    H.;  93,    105-6,    138,    203.     Inskeep,   J.    M.;    12. 

Inskiff,  J.  M.;   26.  lobe,  L.  T.;   118,  123.     Irvine,  A.  M.;    100. 

,    M.    B.;    8,  57-8,    136,    147,   203.     Irwin,    R.;    186,    ?03. 

,   S.   N.;    43. 

Johnson,    J.   W.;    128 ,    W.   V.;    185.      Jones,    W. 

Y.;    103,  185,  203. 

Kain,    W.    M.;    24.      Keady,    W.    G.;    20,    172.      Kendrick, 
W.;    61.      Kennedy,    J.;    72,    78,    92,    96-8,    100,    169,    170,    172. 

Kerr,  H    M.;   42.     Kier,  S.  M.;   107.     King,  G.  I.;   71 , 

H.    G.;     155 ,    R.    D.;     165 ,    S.;     8,    161,    165. 

Kinnaird,  R.  L.;  126.  Kircher,  C.  E.;  88,  173,  203.  Kirk- 
wood,  J.;  31,  61,  96,  99,  107,  116-7,  173,  203.  Knox,  J.;  103, 
203.     Krotzer,  M.  E.;    Ill,  204. 

Lafferty,   J.;    43.      Lawliss,    O.   B.;    142,   155.     Lawrence, 

A.  W.;  81.  Layman,  L.;  59.  Leeper,  W.  R.;  128.  Lewis, 
W.  F.;  4.  Leyda,  J.  E.;  96,  117,  204.  Lheureux,  E.  S.;  186. 
Liggitt,  J.  A.;  90.     Linville,  J.;  8.    Little,  E.  C;  114.    Logan, 

B.  F.;  60.  Lonsdale,  F.;  105-6,  124,  204.  Lord,  C;  34.  Lowe, 
M.;  58,  111.  Luce,  C.  C;  110.  Luther,  B.  D.;  66,  111-2,  138, 
156,   172.     Lytle,   W.   H.;    84. 

McAfee,  C.  B.;  37,  124,  204 ,  J.  A.;  36-7,  176,  180-2, 

204 ,    L.    A.;    37,    205 ,    S.    L.;    173,    176,    205. 

McArthur,  J.  A.;  188.  McBride,  R.  B.  A.;  113,  129.  McCain, 
C;  31,  43,  57,  61,  173,  205.  McCammon,  W.  A.;  132,  205. 
MoClenahan,  W.  L.;  188.  McClintic,  H.  P.;  68,  206.  Mc- 
Clung,    J.    S.;    43,    142,    172,    206.      McClure,    J.    W.;    40,    127. 

McCune,  G.  S.;    185 ,  W.  C;    90,  122,  178.     McDaniel, 

A.  S.;  39,  110.  McDonald,  S.  E.;  59,  149.  McElroy,  W.  R.; 
173,  206.  McFarland,  J.;  43,  174,  206.  McParlane,  J.  N.; 
12.     McGee,  J.  W.;    69,   76,  206.     McGlothlan,  A.  W.;    14,  20, 


INDEX.  237 

84-5,  91,  105,  173-4,  207.  McGready,  J.;  6.  Mclntyre,  C.  C; 
186.  McKay,  J.  A.;  102,  107,  119,  140,  207.  McKelvey,  J. 
A.;  64.  McKinlay,  G.  A.;  31,  45,  61,  89,  98,  142,  146,  151, 
172,  207.     McKitrick,  J.  T.;   128.     Mci:eod,  M.  J.;   57,  86.     Mc- 

N'air,  E.;  12,  42,  61-2,  84,  125,  208 ,  L.  E.;   62,  115,  121, 

207.  McNary,  W.  P.;  113,  207.  McPheeters,  W.;  105.  Mc- 
Pherson,    S.   A.;    120,    208.      McRuer,    D.;    57,    61,    98-9,    101-2, 

106-7,   119,   143,   152,   161-2,   172,    208 ,   D.   Jr.;    99,   116, 

208. 

Mahan,  J.   D.;    58 ,  W.  D.;    59,  60.     Marshall,  H. 

W.;    61 ,    S.    C;    188 ,    T.;    118,    121.      Martin, 

S.    S.;    128.     Miassey,   J.    B.;    42.      Matthews,   J.;    2 , 

W.  F.;  37.  Mayo,  H.  B.;  105.  Mieyer,  W.;  99,  101,  116-7, 
172,  209.     Miller,  F.  M.;   4,  27-8,  77,  91,  95,  110,  122,  136,  139, 

150,    163 ,    G.;    43,    64,    87,    100-1,    103,    107,    115,    142. 

146,   172-3,  209 ,  R.   D.;    8,   77,   140,  150.     Mitchell,   G. 

A.;  209.  Moiad,  G.  L.;  6,  8,  10.  Momchiloff,  S.;  184.  Mont- 
gomery,   R.    P.;     184 ,    T.;    53.      Moore,    E.    G.;     106. 

,  J.;    66,  128,  209 J.  M.;    36,  169,  209 , 

J.  C;    120 ,  L.  S.;   188.     Morgan,  T.;   91,  98,  151,  169. 

Morrison,  J.  M.;  70,  86,  96,  169,  210 ,  M.;  137.  Mor- 
row, R.  D.;  3,  5,  8,  163.  Morton,  J.;  42.  Mullendore,  G.  D.; 
150,  210.  Munkirs,  L.;  54,  120,  135.  Murphy,  J.  A.;  134. 
Murray,  S.  H.;    8,  27,  120,  140,  156.     Musick,  B.;    7. 

Neel,  R.  M.;    126-7.     Nelson,  D.;    164.     Nevins,  J.  E.;    52. 
Newell,  G.  E.;    86,  210 ,  H.  A.;    48.     Nickell,  W.  N.; 

59,  69,  99.  Noel,  E.  P.;  153.  Norman,  J.  H.;  8,  28,  58,  110, 
120,  134,  136,  140,  150,  155.  Norris,  H.  R.;  28,  110,  134-6 
Northrup,  G.  E.;   98,  118. 

O'Dell,  A.  L.;    136.     Owens,  J.  D.;    148. 

Palmer,  E.  M.;  24,  31,  37,  61,  75,  210 ,  M.  B.;   186. 

Parsons,  C;   28 B.  B.;    71.     Patton,  D.;    3,  8,  54,  80, 

133,    160,    165 ,    M.;    77 ,    W.    D.;    64,    89,    172. 

Pearson,  A.;    136.     Penhallegon,  W.  H.;   24.     Perdomo,  J.  J.; 

183.     Perry,  A.  E.;    77,  95,  120 ,  W.  F.;    134 , 

W.  H.  O,:  27,  39,  77,  91,  95,  110,  120,  123,  140,  156,  187,  211. 
Pfanstiehl,  A.  A.;  50.  Pierce,  J.  O.;  100.  Pinkerton,  J.  A.; 
31,  64,  140.  Pollock,  G.  A.;  20.  Powers,  C.  B.;  8,  39,  95. 
110,   123,   134,   140,   150.     Prall,   F.   G.;    134.     Prather,   J.;    54, 

135 ,  L.  J.  A.;    54,   135.     Price,  C.  W.;    32,  40,  62,  68. 

117 ,    J.;     4,    158.      Pringle,    A.;     183,    211.      Putnam, 

G.   H.;    103. 

Ragan,  E.   S.;    53,    58,   120,    123 ,  J.   M.;    53,   58-9, 

60,  76,  99,  109,  126.     Reed,  C.;   99,  112,  116,  172-3 ,  J.; 

20,  70,  75,  90,  98,  102,  107,  111,  117-8,  119,  123,  138,  145,  172-3. 

176,    211 ,    W.;     75,    106-7,    169 ,    W.    M.;     80. 

Reeve,  T.  S.;  28,  31,  33,  165.  Reichert,  F.  J.;  96,  107,  156. 
Renick,  H  ;    3,  8,  54,  138,  158.     Reynolds,  A.  M.;    88,  94,  106, 


238  INDEX. 

173,  211.    Rice,  J.  B.;  70,  86,  118 ,  N.  L.;  32.    Richards, 

F.  v.;    185 ,    S.    W.;    70,    86,    118.      Riley,    J.    L.;    50. 

Roberts,  T.  D.;  20,  43,  83,  84,  93,  101,  106,  129,  172-4,  176,  212. 

Rogers,    H.    M.;     80,    172,    212 ,    J.    F.;     60,    76,    100. 

Romig,  H.  G.;  184.  Ross,  C;  185.  Ruffner,  S.  T.;  89.  Rus- 
sell, C.  G;    78,  92,  98,  143.     Ryland,  X.;    56,  127. 

Sadler,  S.  A.;   136.     Salsbury,  J.  H.;   92.     Sawyer,  S.;   64. 

Sawyers,  H.  A.;   43,  81,  125,  127,  142,  173,  212 ,  J.  K.; 

138.     Schell,  U.  G.;   70,  106,  118,  174,  212.     Schenck,  A.  C.  V.; 

48 ,  W.;  8.    Schermerhorn,  L.  S.;  186.    Schock,  U;  78, 

84,92,213.     Seott,  J.;   68 ,  J.  M.;   42,  89 ,  R.; 

12,   29,    32,   39,    42,    52,    55,    141,   154,   157 ,   T.   A.;    64. 

,  W.  T.;  84,  98,  153,  213.     Scroggins,  — .;  69.     Seabright. 

E.  C;  148.  Sears,  W.  H.;  76.  Shackelford,  R.  S.;  68. 
Sheldon,  F.  E.;  33.  Sherrard,  R.  M.;  112,  Sherwood,  E.  B.; 
1,  31,  52,  61,  69,  78,  82,  87,  92-3,  96-7,  100-1,  104-5,  107,  116-7, 
124,  129,  138,  140,  143-4,  148,  151,  153,  156,  169,  170,  172-4,  176, 

180,  213.     Shetler,  D.  A.;    130.     Shields,  H.  M.;    185 

J.  H.;  64,  81,  173,  213.  Shockley,  H.  M.;  64.  Shook,  H.  C; 
69.  Sibley,  J.  S.;  42.  Simms,  P.  M.;  136.  Singleton,  — .;  63. 
Skerik,  J.;  184.    Skinner,  A.  C.  V.;  81.    Sluter,  G.;  88.    Smith, 

A.;  186,  213 ,  D.  C;  66,  111-2,  117 ,  D.  P.;  129. 

,    H.    F.;    60,    214 ,    H.    R.;    4,    8,    54,    139,    158. 

.. ,  J.  A.;  37,  214 ,  J.  S.;  184,  214 N.  H.;  43, 

52,57,66,81,84,98,101,169,170 ,  W.  A.;  91 , 

W.  C;   98,  105,  172.     Speer,  R.  E.;  53,  58-9,  68-9,  76.     Sproule, 

G.  B.;    58,  145,  214.     Starr,  F.;    24,   51,  152.     Stewart,  C;    12, 

32.     Stone,  J.;    102 ,  R.  C;    102.     Strange,  F.  G.;    70, 

86,  112,  172,  214.  Stryker,  W.  H.;  12,  66,  148.  Sutcliffe, 
B.  B.;  130,  215.  Swallow,  I.  F.;  130.  Sweeney,  J.  D.;  90. 
Sydenstricker,    H.    M.;    80,    173,    21-5.      Symington,    R.    S.;    12. 

,   W.    D.;    12,    52,    66.      Symonds,    E.    W.;    66,    125,   129, 

173,  215. 

Tianner,  A.  M.;  57.  Tatum,  N.  M.;  31,  58,  100,  145,  215. 
Taylor,  H.;  186,  215.  Tels,  E.  B.;  216.  Templeton,  J.  C.; 
80.  Terhune,  T.  B.;  84-5,  216.  Tharp,  J.  H.;  39,  53,  57-9, 
60-1,  69,  76,  95,  99,  110,  122,  127,  136,  216.  Thomas,  W.  G.; 
66,  88,  100.  Thompson,  F.  E.;  61,  70,  86,  108,  118,  172,  216. 
,  G.  T.;  42 ,  J.  H.;  188 ,  L.;  32.  Thorn- 
ton, J.  C;  12,  151.  Tinkham,  P.  A.;  81.  Todd,  J.  W.;  98, 
123.  Townsend,  R.  C;  88,  216.  Trenholm,  G.  A.;  50,  56. 
Trimhle,  W.  S.;    115. 

Uptegrove,  E.  L.;   69,  109,  111,  148. 

Van  Horn,  W.  E.;  39.  Van  Meter,  J.  S.;  127.  Voss,  W. 
E.;  20,  91,  96. 

Waggoner,  D.;  183.  Waits,  E'.  W.;  81,  100,  217.  Walker, 
— .;  58.  Walkinshaw,  J.  D.;  80.  Walton,  J.  M.;  43,  217. 
Ward,  J.  A.;   89 ,  R.  B.;   8.    Ware,  S.  M.;  88,  173,  217. 


INDEX.  230 

Watson,    R.    A.;    62,    117,    218.      Weaver,    J.    H.;    78,    92,    218. 

,  W.;    61,  66,  70,  86,  100-1,  118,  142,  173.     Weeden,  C; 

7,  8 ,  H.;   6,  8.     Welch,  J.;   90.     West,  D.  S.;    62,  117, 

126,  218 ,  R.  B.;    96,  111,  130,   134,  218.     Weston,  J.; 

118.      Whimster,    D.    B.;     93.      Whitsett,    Y.  W.;     135,    218. 
Wiley,    C.   A.;    54-5,   68.     Williams,   H.  F.;    218.     Williamson. 

B.  A.;    64 ,  G.  H.;    79,  80,  103,  106,  173,  219 , 

W.  E.;   43,  101.     Willis,  H.  P.  S.;   32,  62,  96,  114 ,  W. 

J.;    76,   219.     Wilson,  J.;    44,   84,   98,  123,  126-7,   173,   177,   219. 

,  R.  W.;    42 ,  S.  F.;    93,  220.     Wolfe,  A.  D.;   90, 

100,  122,  178,  220.     Wood,  J.;   96 .,  W.  D.;   69.     Wood- 
ward,   G.    S.;    35-6,    220.     Workman,   A.   D.;    66,    88,   105,    172. 

Wozencraft,   G.;    58 ,  W.   O.;    58.     Wright,   C.  E.;    39. 

,  E.;    34,  153,  166 ,  E.  M.;    58,  155 ,  J.; 

183,220.     ...-...,  J.  M.;  100 ,  W.  K.;  103,  220.     Wylie, 

C.  A.;    32.     Wynn,  P.  W.;    53,  59,  60. 

Yantis,    E.    M.;    40,    42^     ,    J.    L.;    12,    26,    32,    166. 

Young,  J.   C;    66,   78,   80,   81,  84,   92,  118 ,  J.   N.;    52, 

56-7,  67,  70,  91,  138,  141,  143,  148,  167,  169,  170,  221 , 

J.  N.  Jr.;    184,  221. 


240  INDEX. 

PERSONAL. 

This  division  of  tlie  index  includes  all  persons  mentioned 
in  the  book  not  given  in  the  preceding  two  divisions,  except- 
ing those  incidentally  appearing  in  the  Ministerial  Register. 

Abel,   Mrs.;    143.     Abercrombie,  Agnes;    115.     Adams,  A. 

G.;   183 Annie  E.;   124 ,  H.  E.;    124 , 

Jane;  97 ,  Mary;  104 ,  Nellie  C;  183 .., 

Sarah  L.;   97 ,  Tr,   8.     Adkins,  Polly;   8.     Affleck,  H.; 

128 ,  Jessie;    128 ,   Nannie;    128.     Ainscombe, 

J.  A.;    131.     Aitchison,  D.;    115.     Akin,  S.  J.;    36.     Alexander, 

J.  E.;    87.     Alldridge,  G.  W.;    85 ,  J.   S.;    85 , 

M.  J.;   85 ,  W.  E.;   85.     Allen,  Abbie  E.;   117 , 

G.    P.;     146 ,    J.    H.;     143 ,    Lethe,    J.;     109, 

Mary;    121 ,  Mattie;    121 ,  R.  D.;    121. 

,  Sarah;  146.    Altman,  Agnes;  90.    Anderson,  Arabella; 

124 ,  Charlotte;   130 ,  Mrs.  J.;   114.     Andrews, 

Bell;    87 ,   Letitia;    87.     Anthony,  G.;    130 ,  J. 

P.;    130.      Armilda;    40.     Armstrong,    Miary   R.;    185 , 

Sadie  V.;    183.     Arter,  Phoebe;   30.     Arthur,  W.  J.;    95.     Art- 
lip,  Catherine;   124.    Aspling,  T.;   36.     Atchison,  Alda  B.;   188. 

,   J.   C;    121.     Austin,   Eliz.;    92 ,   Mrs.  J.;    121. 

,  W.;    88.     Avery,  H.  A.;    87. 

Babcock,  Hannah;  61.  .  ,  Helen;  103.  Baker,  Chris- 
tiana;   183 ,    Mrs.    C.    C;    138 ,    Harriet;    97. 

,    Jennie    L.;    97 ,    Martha    E.;    124.      Baldwin, 

Mrs.  G.  W.;    143.     Ball,  W.;    145.     Ballantyne,  Margarette  I.; 

184.  Ballard,  Sarah;   15.     Ballinger,  G.  W.;   111.     Bane,  Char- 
ity;   25.     Barbee,  J.  F.;    125 ,  Mary  A.;    125 

Mrs.    M.    M.;    125.      Barber,    D.    C;    84 ,    Louisa;    84. 

Barker.  Mrs.  L.  N.;    65.     Barks,  Clara;   126 G.;    126. 

,    Mary;     126.      Baron,    P.;     120.      Barr,    Harriet;     144 

,  Miss  H  I.;    144 Jane;    144 ,  J.;    144. 

,  J.   T.;    144 ,   Mary  J.;    144 ,   W.;    144. 

,  W.  N.;    144.     Barrett,  Mary  A.;    185.     Barton,  G.  C; 

71 ,  W.;    130.     Bates,  Elsie  J.;    186 ,   Fratie; 

125.     Bathgate,  Mary;   123.     Baty,  Sarah  E.;   150.     Bazar,  H.; 

93 ,  Isabel;   93 ,  Melissa;   93 ,  Orlena; 

93.     Beans,  Maria;   121.     Beard,  Sarah  K.;   94.     Beattie,  Mr.; 

33 ,   Keziah;    15 ,   S.   M.;    115.     Beck,  A.;    32. 

Becraft,  Lorenda;    93 ,   W.   R.;    93.     Beeney,  Gracia; 

103.     Bell,   Jessie   F.;    184 ,   Marg.   A.;    188.     Bender, 

Sarah;     104.      Bendure,    Sallie;     120.      Benight,    C.    W.;     82. 
Benson,   Mrs.   E.;    103.     Bemheim,   Irene;    185.     Best,   Marg; 

185.  Bethel,   Mrs.   C.   E.;    124 ,   Goldie;    124 , 

Nannie  K.;   124.     Biddle,  E.;    106 ,  Sarah;    106.     Bier 

man,  F.  H.;    115.     Bilby,  Marg.;    148.     Bingham,  Florence  B.; 

186.  Birch,  Almira  P.;   57.     Bird,  Mrs.  J.  C;   64.     Birge,  Ida; 

112.      Bishop,    A.    W.;    118 ,    Julia    A.;    118.      Bissett, 

Mrs.;     65.      Black,     Sarah;     114.       Blackburn,     Retta;     120. 


INDEX.  241 

Blacklock,  Cornelia  M.;   85-6 ,  E.  E.;    85.     Blair,  Eliz. 

B.;    183 ,  Mollie  J.;   87.     Blake,  Mrs.  E.  F.;   65.     Bles- 
sing,   Miss;     107.      Blinn,    H.    S.;     124 J.   K;     124. 

Lucy  E.;    124 ,  Mary  E.;    124.     Blue,  W.;    53. 

Boggs.  Mrs.  D.;  60.  Bomon,  M.;  85 ,  R.  B.;  85.  Bon- 
ham,   Mrs.  J.;    71. ,   Mrs.  R.;    71 ,   Sophia;    70. 

Booth,  Rebecca;  107.  Botkin,  Mary  E.;  148.  Botkins,  J.; 
101.     Botsford,   C.   L.;    97.     Bowie,  J.;    36.     Bowman,   A.;    27. 

,  J.;   27.     Boyd,  Lulu  H.;    184.     Boyles,  C;    38 , 

J;     38 ,    Martha    (two);     70 ,    Mary    T.;     85. 

Bradley,  Clarissa;   104 ,  Mrs.  H.;   71 ,  Dr.  H.; 

71 ,  M.  B.;    104.     Brand,  Eliz.;   88.     Brasington,  Mary 

C;  77.    Breedlove,  J.  H.;^52 .,  Mrs.  R.  M.;  52.     Breit, 

Etta;   27 ,  J.  F.  S.;   27 ,  P.  A.;    27.     Bremner, 

Mary;   186.     Bright,  T.;    117.     Brinson,  F.  N.;   93.     Broderick, 

Anna;   110 ,  S.  C;   110.     Brown,  C;   8 ,  Eliz.; 

8 ,  Mrs.  E.  E.;  129 ,  F.  C;  130 ,  G.  S.; 

130 ,  Jane;  70 ,  Mary  M.;  75 Melis- 
sa; 75 ,  Minerva;  75.     ,  Mrs.  R.  G.;  115 , 

Sarah;    30 ,  Susan  R.;    61 ,  W.   (two);    30,  95. 

Brownfield,  F.  S.;   111.     Brownson,  S.  J.;   151.     Brubaker,  A  ; 

15,33 ,  Eliz.;  15,  33 ,  J.;  38 ,  Julia  A.; 

15,  33.     Brundige,  Hattie;   61 ,  Lydia;   61.     Buck,  Mrs. 

H.;   82 H.  S.;   82 ,Mary;   76.     Burgher,  Mrs. 

M.;   126.     Burney,  W.  P.;   36.     Burns,  Jane;   8 ,  J.;   8. 

Burr,  Jane  L.;  68.    Bush,  Mrs.;  152.    Bushnell,  H.;  75.    Butler, 

S.  T.;  82.    Buxton,  Belle;  118.    Buzzard,  Hannah;  99 , 

Jane;    69.     .' ,  J.;    69.     Byers,   Sarah;    84.     Byram,  Lulu; 

185. 

Cain,  Nancy;    10.     Caldwell,  A.  J.;    186 ,  Mrs.  J. 

R.;   20.     Calfee,  J.  E.;  — .     Calhoun,  Mrs.  A.  J.;   133 , 

T.;  159.  Callahan,  Eliz.;  61.  Callison,  Susan  T.;  99.  Camp- 
bell, J.;   64 ,  Mary  (two);   64,  122.     Canan,  Emma  G.; 

87.     Canon,  Ann;  143 ,  Mary;   143.     ,  Mrs.;   143. 

Caraway,  Bell;  99.  Carnard,  Catharine;  150.  Carothers,  W. 
A.;  114.  Carpenter,  Mrs.  P.  G.;  8.  Carrier,  Nellie  E.;  124. 
Carroll,  Adda;  146 ,  Eliz.;  146 ,  J.;  146.  Car- 
son, C.  C.  Jr.;   54 ,  Mrs.  E.;   47 ,  Jane  E.;    54. 

,  J.  W.;   140 ,  Louisa  M.;   54 ,  Mary,  J.; 

15,  30 ,  Paulina;   54.     Carswell,  M.;   93.     Carter,  Mrs. 

E.  F.;    148 ,   Miattie;    103.     Cartwright,  Ann  E'.;    150 

Carver,  J.  E.;  150.    Case,  Caroline  P*,.;  23.    Caskey,  Henrietta; 

183.  OaBteel,  .G  W.;  93.  Caster,  W.  P.;  147.  Castle,  Harriet; 
15,  33.     Caulk,  J.;  148.     Chambers,  A.;  52 ,  Bessie  M.; 

184. ,  Maria;  52.    Chandler,  G.;  82.    Charity;  40.    Ches- 

nut,  Eleanor;  184.    Christian,  Lutie  A.;  186.    Clapp,  Mary;  166. 

Clark,  Ann;  29 ,  Caroline  R.;   184 ,  Eliz.;  160. 

,    Eliz.    D.;    110 ,    H.    V.;    110 ,    L;    91. 

,   J.   E.;    110 ,   J.   M.;    110 ,   Jessie;    54. 

,   J.   S.;    110 ,  Dr.   J.;    29 ,   Lon  E.;    57. 

,  Martha  J. ;  110 M.  E.;  110 ,  M.  J.;  110. 

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242  INDEX. 

,  Nancy  (two) ;   25,  110 ,  R.  F.  M.;  110 

S.;  32 ,  S.  T.;   110 ,  Tersy;  54.     Clay  water,  J. 

G.;  32.    Clemenson,  J.;  130.    Clingingsmith,  J.;  153.     Clonkey. 

H.;   131 ,  W.;   131.     Clute,  J.;  45.     Coats,  A.  W.;   115. 

Cbburn,  Emma;  101 ,  Nellie;  101 Sarah;  101. 

,  W.;    101.     Cochran,  Mrs.;    46 ,  H.;   44.     Coch- 
rane, Eliz.  S.;   119.     Coe,  Martha;   124 ,  T.;   32.     Coff- 

land,  Mary  J.;  184.     Cole,  A.;   66 ,  Lucy;  146.     Collier, 

Mrs.    M.   A.;    138.     .......   Mary  B.;    138.     Collins,  Jane;    79. 

Collow,  N.;    84 ,  T.  D.;    85.     Colt,  C.  L.;   82.     Combs, 

Olive;    57 ,  S.   C;    110 ,   Susan  N.;    47.     Cbn- 

ners,   Augusta;    130.     Conway,  A.    D.;    130 ,   J.;    144. 

,  Rebecca;    144.     Cooper,  Capt.;   9 ,  H.  M.;    45. 

,J.  M.;97 ,  Mary  C;  97 ,  Rachel  (two) ; 

39,  97 ,  Sarah  M.;   97 ,  W.  C;   97.     Copeland, 

Effie  M.;   186.     Corell,  Mary  S.;   119.     Cornell,  Dr.  H.  L.;  186. 

Cowan,  Annie  L.;  124 ,  Eleanor;  52 ,  Mary  E.; 

101.      Cowen,   F.;    38 ,    J.;    66 ,    Mary   E.;    66. 

Cowles,  Martha  A.;    88 ,  Mary;    23.     Cowsert,  M.  F.; 

154 ,  Rosanna;    154 ,  Sarah;    154 ,  W. 

A.;    154.     Cox,   Marth:a  E.;    93.     Craig,   Mrs.   J.;    71 , 

Mary  V.;  81.    Crain,  E.  A.;  130 ,  Marg.;  60.    Crawford, 

T.;    150.      Crellen,    Mrs.    W.;    85.      Creswell,    Anna    B.;    188. 
Crews,  W.  T.;    111.     Crockett,  Mary  J.;   125.     Crooks,  Dr.  C. 

H.;   186.     Crose,  Alice;   122 ,  Mrs.;   122 ,  Mrs. 

M.;  122 ,  M.;  153 ,  S.;  122.    Crossett,  Artelia; 

25 ,  J.;   26,  39 ,  Marg.;   25 ,  Mary;   25. 

Crosswhite,  J.  J.;  185.    Crow,  M.  M.;  123 ,  Sarah;  123. 

Crum,  Ella  F.;   120.     Culp,  Alice  M.;   57 ,  Eva  V.;   183. 

Cummings,   R.   C;    121.      Cummins,   Ann;    25 ,   Mary; 

25 ,    R.    A.;     23 ,    Ruth;     25 ,    S.;     25. 

,  W.;   25.     Cunningham,  Mrs.  J.  S.;   44.     Curry,  G.  W.; 

62 ,  J.  A.;   62 ,  Julia;    117 ,  Mary  K.; 

62.  ,      ; 

Darby,  Bertha;  185.    Davies,  Mrs.  L.  J.;  105.    Davis,  Amer- 
ica; 60 ,  Esther;   8 ,  Harriet;   15 ,  H.; 

8       ,    J.;     59 ,    John;     91 ,    J.    E.;     15. 

,  Kate;    120 ,  Lavina  K.;    124 ,  Mahala 

E.;  124 ,  Marg.;  11,  25 ,  Sarah  A.;  15 , 

W.;   11,  25.     Dawson,  Lenora;   183 ,  M.  F.;   134.     Day- 
ton,   Mary  A.;    185.     Deaderick,   Ina   F.;    183.     Deakins,   W.; 

27.     Dearmiont,  Mary;    134 ,  T.;    134.     Decker,  Clarin- 

da;   93 ,  J.;   93.     De  Clue,  Mrs.  J.;   71.     De  Muth,  J.; 

143.     Demuth,  Marg.  A.;  186.     Denny,  Emily;   25 ,  G.; 

25,   39 ,   Hannah;    25 ,   Jane;    25,   39 , 

Matilda;  25 ,  N.;  39.    Dexter,  G.  F.;  72.    Dice,  Emma; 

122 ,  F.  H.;   125 ,  J.  L.;   125 ,  Mrs.  M. 

L.;    12 ,    Dr.    T.    P.;    75,    141.      Dickson,    Clara;    188. 

,  Laurella  G.;   188.     Diegelman,  Ellen;   65.     Dienst,  Liz- 
zie   M.;     186.      Dilley,    Agnes    M.;     183 ,    Fern;     185. 

,  Florence  E'.;  185.     Dimmitt,  Luemma;  115.    Dinsmore, 


INDEX.  243 

Jane  P.;  126.    Dobson,  C.  E.;  131 ,  W.  D.;  103.    Dodge, 

Laura;  118.    Doggett,  Anna  L.;  186.    Dolan,  Eliza;  62.    Dolly, 

M.  Anna;    185.     Donaldson,   Mrs.  E.;    126 ,   Mrs.  W.; 

102-3.     Dort,  Mrs.;   152 ,  Ellen;   152.     Doty,  Susan  A.; 

185.     Dry  den,  H.  P.;   104 ,  Sarah  L.;   104.     Duff,  Anna 

M.;   128 ,  Emma;  128 ,  J.  A.;  128.     Dumbreck 

A.;  131 ,  Catherine;  131 ,  Celia;  131.    Duncan 

Alexia;    184 ,    Christina;     183.      Dungan,    E.    A.;     39 

,  J.  A.;  38.     Dunham,  I.;  68.     Dunlap,  J.;   62 ,J 

M.;    62 ,  Marg.  R.;    62 ,  Mary  E.;    62.     Dunn 

G.;    64 ,  Marg.  J.;    43 ,  S.;    43.     Dunshee,  Dr 

R.  R.;  112.    Dysart,  Annie  E,;  56 ,  Daisy;  56 

Emma;    56 ,  Julia;    56.     .......  Mrs.  L.;    47 

Louisa;  54 ,  S.;  56. 

Easter,    Susan;    143.      Edds,    Mrs.;    130.      Edie,   J.;    123. 

,     Mrs.     N.;     151 ,     T.     J.;     151.        Edgar, 

Matilda;    68.     Edmiston,  J.;   67.     E'dson,  W.;    123.     Elliott,  A. 

Augusta;     186 Harriet;     186 ,     Julia;     106. 

,  Nancy  J.;    75 ,  Sarah;    11.     Ellis,  Mrs.  E.  L.; 

64.     Elmore,  E.  P.;    53.     Ely,  Ellen;    137.     Emmerson,  Jane; 

43 ,    R.    G.;     43.      English.    C;     8 ,    Jane;     8. 

,  J.;  8 ,  Polly;   8 ,  Rebecca;   8.     Eppler, 

C;  134 ,  Hannah  B.;   39 ,  J.;   38.     Erixson,  J.; 

27.    Ervin,  Florence  A.;  57.    Estes,  B.  W.;  93 ,  Fannie 

M.;   93 ,  Sarah  E.;   93 ,  Mrs.  T.;   123 , 

W.;   93.     Evans,  C.  L.;    115 ,  Hila;   43 ,  John; 

95 ,   J.;    43 ,  L.   C;    87. ,   Maude;    184. 

,  Rebecca;    87.     Eversole,  Luella;    125.     Ewing,  F.;    56. 

,  W.;   115 ,  Cora  S.;    129 ,  H.  L.;   129. 

Fa,ris,   Marg.;    184.     Ferguson,  J,;    115 ,   Mrs.   S.; 

143.  Ferrier,  Helen  J.;  188.  Ferril,  D.  L.;  54.  Filson,  Sarah 
A.;  92.  Finch,  Eliz.;  77.  Finlay,  H.  L;  186.  Finley,  Nancy 
E.;  25 ,  R.  W.;  25.  Finney,  H.;  134 ,  Minne- 
haha;  188.     Fisher,  Jennie;   60 ,  Rebecca;   81.     Fitch, 

Mrs.  J.  A.;   105.     Fitzgerald,  Mary  F.;   110 ,  Mary  J.; 

110.     Flack,  C.  E.;   184 ,  D.;   107.     Flagler,  Edith;   183. 

Flanigan,  Mrs.  J.;   103.     Fleming,  E.  Elva;   184 ,  Mrs. 

P.;  71.  Fogg,  Mary  H.;  56.  Ford,  Cordie;  124.  Fore,  Mr,^. 
L.;  47.    Forster,' Olivia  B.;  185.     Forsythe,  W.;  122.     Fort,  D.; 

45 ,  G.;    45.     Foster,  Jane;    99 ,  Mary  B.;    99. 

,  Ollie;   114 ,  S.  S.;  114.    Fox,  Edna;  8.     Frame, 

Mary;  81.  Francis,  J.;  38 ,  Polly;  52.  Frank,  Mag- 
gie; 106.    Frazer,  A.;  100 ,  B.  B.,  Jr.;   115 J.; 

123 ,    Mary    A.;    100 ,    Mecca;    123.      Frazier, 

Eliz.;  106 ,  Emily;  106 ,  Mary;  106.  Freder- 
ick, Mrs.;    44.     Freece,  E.  J.;    186 ,  H.  P.;    186.     Frie, 

Mary;    150 ,  Virginia;    150.     Frock,  Bell;    153.     Frost', 

Nancy;  8.  Fulkerson,  Mrs.  L.;  47.  Fuller,  J.  W.;  27.  Ful- 
lerton,   Jane;    90 ,    Mary;    90 ,    Mary   A.;    90. 


344  INDEX. 

Fulton,  Martha  V.;  184.    Furber,  Martha;  150.     Furguson,  G.; 
85. 

Gallagher,  L.  J.;  146.     Gallaher,  Jane;   97 S.  F.; 

97 ,  T.  B.;  97.     Gant,  G.  W.;   150.     . .' ,  Nancy  A.; 

150 ,  Susan  S.;    150.     Gardner,  J.  P.;    93.     Gartln,  B. 

Caroline;    110 ,   Cassandra  F.;    110 ,   Clemen- 
tina   B.;     110 ,    J.    R.;    110 ,    Mary    F.;     121. 

,   N.;    110 ,   N.    K.;    110 R.   May;    110. 

Garvin,   Mrs.   J.   F.;    103.     Gash,  J.  D.;    10.     Gaston,   J.;    55. 

Gates,  N.;  53.    Geiger,  Rebecca;  87 ,  W.;  87.     George, 

Mary   A.;    11.      Gibbs,    Rebecca;    150.      Gibson,    Lucinda;    79. 

Mary;  115 ,  Roberta  F.;   188,     Giffin,  Mrs.  J.; 

138 ,  W.;  138.     Gilbert,  Mary  A.;  93.    Gilchrist,  E.  J.; 

84 ,  S.;   84.     Gilkison,  A.  U;   71.     Gillespie,  Mary  B.; 

62.     Gilmour,   Eleanor;    52 ,   J.;    52.     Girton,   M.   L.; 

183.     Gladstone,  Mrs.  A.;    99 ,  Helen;    116.     Glasgow, 

F.  P.;  87.    Glaskin,  Betty;  115.    Glenn,  Jane;  100.    Goff,  L.  C; 
185.    Goodale,  Emma;  103.    Goodsil,  Helen;  105.    Gordon,  Mrs. 

D.;  65 ,  Jennie;  125.     Gowdy,  Grace;  188.     Grace,  G.; 

95.     Gragg,   J.;    32 ,   Jane;    32 ,   Mahala;    10. 

Graham,    C.    H.;     85 ,    E.;     123 ,    Eliz.;     101. 

,  Hannah;  101 ,  Laura  E.;  123 ,  Milley; 

85 ,  V.   L.;    101.     Grant,   Lavina;    59 ,  R.   L.; 

52.    Graves,  Mrs.  M  J.;  121.    Gray,  J.  M.;  25 ,  Marg.; 

90.      Green,    D.    F.;    40 ,    Mary;    104.      Gregg,    H.;    9. 

,    Marg.;    9.     Gresen,    Mary;    52.     Gresham,   Eliz.;    66. 

Groves,  Susan  S.;    124 ,  W.  M.;    124. 

Hafferty,   S.;    137.     Hagerty,    Mrs.   J.   W.;    131.     Hagins, 
Nancy;     31.      Hainline,    Mary    E'.;     120.      Hall,    Annie,    121 

Edna  F.;   121 ,  Emma;   121.     .......  Inez  C; 

121 ,     Maria;     81 ,     Nancy;     31.       Hamilton, 

Grace  D.;    186 ,   Mrs.  W.   H.;    128-9.     Hamlin,   Eliz.; 

99 ,  Marg.;   99 ,  S.;   99 ,  Virginia;   99. 

Hammett,  Virginia;    121.     Hampton,  Almeda;    15,4.     Handley. 

Anna  F.;    185.     Hanna,   J.    F.;    114 ,   Nettie   V.;    114. 

Hannah,     Sarah;     59.       Hansen,     Aurelia;     186.      Harbaugh, 

Beatrice  S.;  184 ,  R.  L.;   134 ,  Sylvia  M.;  186. 

Hardwick,  Emma;  124 ,  Marg.  E.;  57 ,  Olive; 

124.     Hardy,  D.;   33 ,  Jane  E.;    15.     Harold,  Mrs.  W. 

S.;   131.     Harper,  A.  E.;   123 ,  Marg.  E.;   124 , 

Mary  E.;    123.     Harris,  Anna;    8.     Harrison,   Caroline;    116. 

Hart,  J.  A.;  136 ,  Mrs.  J.  M.;  136 ,  Mary;  144. 

Hartman,  Emily  L.;   185.     Harwood,  Mary  C;   81.     Hastings, 
Clara  B.;    185.     Hawthorn,   Mrs.  E.   L.;    96.     Haxton,   J.;    93. 

,  Mary  A.;    93.     Hayden,  Mary  E.;    185.     Haynes,  Mrs. 

S.;    60.      Haytes,    J.    M.;    155 ,    Marg.;    77.      Headric, 

Eliz.;  59 ,  Mary  J.;  59.     Heald,  Jennie;  104.     Heasley, 

J.;   106.     Hedric,  W.  A.;  63.    Hefner,  Eliz.  J.;  69.     Henderson, 

Annie  E*.;    184 ,  Mary  J.;    186 ,  R.;    25.     Hen- 

dra,  J.  J.;    130.     Hengston,  C.  W.;    129.     Hensley,  C.  A.;    115. 


INDEX.  245 

Hepburn,    Charlotte    S.;    126 ,    Eliz.   J.;    126 , 

D.;     126 ,     Estlier     C;      126 ,     Isabell;      126. 

,   Jennette;    126 ,   J.;    126 ,   J.    G.;    126. 

,    Maggie    E,;    124 ,    Mrs.    M.    J.;    126 

Margurite    A.;     126 ,    R.;     126 ,    T.    H.;     126. 

,     W.     S.;     124.       Herndon,     Katherine;     185 , 

Louise;    185.      Herron,   Ansie;    118.      Hewlett,    Lucy   A.;    47. 

Hicklin,    Elvira;    53.      Hicks,    Louise;    106 ,    Martha; 

116.     Higglns,   Carrie   W.;    151 ,   Eliza;    126 , 

Mary;    118 ,  Mary  B.;    183:     ,  Mrs.  H.  W.;    151. 

Hightman,  Mrs.  H.;   87.     Hill,  Ella  R.;   99 ,  Mary;   59. 

,  Virginia;    99.     Hindman,   Lucv   H.;    185 ,   W. 

H.;    148.      Hodges,   Anna;    120 C.    B.;    120 , 

J.;  120.     Hogue,  H.  S.;   111.     Holland,  J.;   76 ,  Marg.; 

76.     Holt,  Mrs.;    54 ,  F.;    26.     Homes,  Aurelia  S.;    57. 

Hon,  J.  C;   46.     Hooper,  Mrs.  C.  M.;   68 ,  Mrs.  S.  L.; 

68.     Hoover,  Sarah;   62.     Hope,  N.  H.;   29.     Hord,  J.  M.;   140. 
Hotaling,  Mildred;    104.     Hotchkins,  Hettie  D.;    186.     House, 

C;   138.     Hovey,  Mrs.  V.;   143.     Howard,  Sarah;    123 , 

W.  M.;  123.    Howell,  Nancy;  64.     Hubbard,  W.;  57.     Hubbell, 
Mary  E.;    124.     Huckett,  Minnie  M.;    186.     Hudgins,  Mrs.  F., 

31.     Hudson,  America  P.;   23 ,  Maggie;   117.     Hughes, 

Edith;    186 ,   Marg.;    183.     Hughurt,   Mrs.   M.    E.;    68. 

Hulburd,  Anna  F.;    185.     Hulse,  Mrs.  G.  T.;    24.     Hunter,  A., 

144 ,    Maggie    B.;    144., ,    Sarah;    144 , 

W.;   144.     Huntsinger,  A.;   85 ,  H.  H.;   85 ,  M. 

W.;   85.     Hurd,  Miss  A.  F.;   166.     Hyde,  Mrs.  S.  P.;   71. 

Iba,  H  ;   82.     Ingstrum,  Sarah;    114.     Irwin,  Anna  M.;   82. 

,  Emma  H. ;  82 ,  F. ;  47 ,  I. ;  38 , 

J.    M.;    47 ,    Laura    D. ;    82 ,    Louisa    C;    47. 

,   S,;    38 ,  W.  A.;    82. 

Jack,   S.  A.;    29.     Jackson,  J.;    87 ,  Rebecca;    87. 

,  W.  W.;    88.     James,  Janie;    84 ,  W;    95.     Jei:- 

fers,    S.;     53.      Jewell,    Ida    S.;     117.      Johns;    Roxana;     124. 

Johnson,  B.  A.;  154 ,  Mrs.  E.;   70 ,  E.  D.;   118. 

,  Emily;    118 ,  H.  S.;    154 ,  Jennie;    57. 

,  Mary  R.;  159 ,  Dr.  S.  F.;   73.    Johnston,  Alice; 

L.;   183.     Jones,  Bessie;  130 ,  G.  W.;   57 ,H; 

57 ,   Janet  L.;    124 '.  .,   Jessie  R.;    124 , 

J.;    32 ,    Mrs.    L.    H.;    124 ,    Vernie    E.;     185. 

. . .  . . .,  W.  B.;   57 ,  W.  D.;   124.    Judy,  Eliz.;  134. 

Kalb,  Ethel  B.;    183 ,  Theresa  M.;    186.     Kanten, 

A.   S.;    55.     Kariker,   Laura;    123.     Kaull,  Ann;    143.     Kelly, 

Eliza;    69      ,  G.  W.;   69.     Kenady,  Jane;   40.     Kennedy, 

Pearl;    105.     Kerr,  Araminta;    116.     Ketring,   W.;    27.     Kier, 

Hannah;   57.     Kilian,  Eliza;   10.     King,  A.:   79      ,  Anna- 

bello;   186 ,  Eliz.;    79.     Kipp,  Jennie  L.;    183.     Kirsch- 

ner,  W.;    130      Knappenberger,  Mary;    39.     Knauer,  Mrs.  A.; 
60 ,   Mrs.   C.  L.;    60.     Koch,  J.  W.;    115.     Krautz,  J.; 


246  INDEX. 

118 ,  Mary  A.;  118.  Krinzel,  Eliz.;  124  Kyle,  Char- 
lotte;  186 ,  Eliz.;    186 ,  Mae  B.;    186. 

Laferty,  Miss  E.  J.;   64 J.;64 ,  J    C;  64. 

,   Marg.;    64 ,   Miss   M.;    64.     Lafferty,   Jennie; 

103.     Lamar,  Eliz.;    150 ,  Frances;    150 ,  W.; 

150.     Lambert,   Hannah  L.;    111.     Lambrite,  H.;    71 , 

Mrs.  J.;  71 ,  J.  C;  71.  Lam  me,  Edith  D.;  186.  Lam- 
son,    Mrs.   M.;    65.     Landers,   D.;    18 ,    Deborah;    18. 

Landis,  Mrs.  I.;    33.     Lane,  Mary  A.;   185,     Langelier,  Faye; 

183.      Langford,   Amanda;    144 ,    Mrs.    N.    D.;    47,    54. 

Langston,  W.;   33.     Larmer,  J.  A.;   57 ,  Nancy  J.;  57. 

,  N.  H.;  57 ,  Rosa  W.;  57.    Lasley,  Agnes;  186. 

,  Vergie  M.;   186.     Latschar,  D.  L.;   104.     Law,  A.;   183. 

Lawson,  Hattie;   57 ,  T.  D.;   57.     Leaver,  Mrs.  F.;   65 

Leeper,  Eliz.;    64 ,  J.  B.;    63.     Leiber,  Mrs.  L.  C;   37, 

148.     Leininger,  Sallie;    106.     Leonard,  Euphora;    56 

Mrs.  J.  C;  56 ,  May;  56 ,  Perilla;  56.  Less- 
ley,  Rose;    183.     Levagood,  A.   Maude;    185.     Lewis,   Emma; 

57 ,  J.  L.;      57.     Lheureux,  Lydia;   186.     Liggett,  Ber- 

nice;    144 ,    Jane;     145 ,    Mary;     144.      Light, 

Sol.;    185.     Lile,   Mary  J.;    60 ,  W.   P.;    59.     Lindsay. 

Carrie;  61 ,  Eliz.;  143 Hattie;  126.     Lindsey, 

J.  B.;    88 ,  Mary   C;    88 ,  Sallie;    88 , 

Virginia;  88.  Linton,  D.;  90 ,  J,;  90.  Linville,  Matil- 
da;  8.     Lockridge,  J.;   99.     Long,  Adelia;    154 .,  Lucin- 

da;  154 ,  Mary;  11 ,  Ollie;  154 S.  H.; 

154.     Looney,   Jane  P.;    11 ,   Polly   W.;    11.     Loring, 

Alice  A.;  157.  Lowe,  Rebecca;  117.  Luckhardt,  Mrs.  G.  S.; 
108.  Lukehardt,  Mrs.  L.;  143.  Luthy,  Lou;  183.  Lynn,  Isa- 
bella; 25.    Lyon,  G.;  71 ,  Mrs.  G.;  71.    Lyons,  R.;  111. 

McAdoo,  J.;    79 ,  Mary  E.;   79.     McAfee,  F.;    185. 

.. ,  Helen  B.;    185.     McArthur,  A.  Victoria;    186 , 

Victoria    E.;    184.      McBride,    G.    M.;     184 ,    J.;    44-5. 

McCallen,    Catherine;     52 ,    Sarah;    52.      McCammon, 

Flora  L.;  23.  McCarle,  Mary;  184.  McCartney,  Carrie;  99. 
McCarty,  Emily;    186.     McCaslin,  G.;    125.     McClain,  B.;    25. 

Eliz.;    39.      McClanathan,   Hannah;    75.      McClandish, 

C;    111.      McClenahan,   R.    S.;    188.      McClung,    Ida    G.;    187. 

McClure,    C;    123.      McClurg,    J.;    31 ,    Sarah    A.;    31. 

McClusky,  May  E.;  187.  McColley,  L.  D.;  139.  McCombs, 
I.  A.;  88.  MoConkey,  Mary;  57.  McConnel,  Marg.;  54.  Mc- 
Corkle,  W.  J.;  95.  McCloy,  Eliz.;  66.  McCreary,  Angeline; 
52.     McCullough,  T.  S.;   114.     McCully,  Susan;    137.     McCune, 

Katherine;     185.      McCurdy,  Jane;    24 ,  S.  T.  S.;    29. 

MoDaniel,   Eliz.;    54 ,    J.;    54 ,    Lydia   E.;    54. 

,    Mary    J.;     54.      McDonald,    Nancy    E.;     163 , 

Rosanna;    106 ,    Susan    M.;    61.      McDougall,   Emma; 

61.     McFarland,   Mrs.   S.;    138 ,  T.;    71.     McGaughey, 

Kate;  122.     McGee,  J.  W.;  147 ,  Mary  K.;  52 , 

Sarah;     52 ,    W.     F.;     52.       McGeorge,    Agnes;     125. 


INDEX.  247 

Helen;    125 ,  Jane;    125.     McGlotblan,  C.  S.; 

118.    McGuire,  Tillie;  103.    Mcllvain,  Hannah;  25.    Mcllvaine, 

A.;    11 ,  Hannah;    11.     Mcintosh,  Nellie;    57.     McKee, 

T.  H.;  84 ,  W.  53.     McKelvey,  Grace;   130.     McKinney, 

Mrs.    M.;    71.      McKissick,   Patsy;    8.     McLane,   Isabella;    25. 

McLawry,   Elllnor;    75 ,   R.   M.;    75,   141.     Mac    Lean, 

Maron  J.;    183.     McManis,  W.  J.;    185.     McMillan.  A.  J.;    85. 

,    Anne    J.;     85.     .......    D.;     85 ,    Marg.;     96 

,  Mary  J.;    85 ,  W.  J.;    85.     McMillen,  A.;    119. 

McMullen,  Belle;  125 ,  Sarah  E.;  108.    McMunn,  Jane; 

33 ,   Nancy;    33.     McMurray,   Tine;    145.     McNeeley, 

Jane;    25 Kizzie;    39.     McNeil,  Mrs.  J.;    65 , 

J.    H.;    31.      McPherson,    P.;    98.      McRuer,    Jeanie    M.;    185. 

,  Mary  T.;   99.     McTaggart,  J.;  25.     McWilliams,  Mary; 

11- 

Machett,  W.  R.;   115.     Madden,  Effie;   153.     Magill,  D.;   8. 

,  D.   P.;    8 ,   Sally;    8.     Malott,   W.;    8.      Man, 

Mrs.    W.;    60.      Manley,    C.    A.;    70 ,    Mrs.    S.    S.;    71. 

Mann,  H.  J.;   124.      Mansfield,  Biddie;   93 ,  J.  W.;   93. 

Manson,   Henrietta;    90 ,   Marg.;    90.     Markle,   S.   M.; 

72.     Marquam,  Jane;  44-5 ,  W.  E.;  44-5.     Marsh,  Anna 

L.;  183.    Martin,  Dora  B.;  186 ,  Mary  E.;  104 

Mary  J.;   116 ,  Miss  M.  L.  V.;   144 ,  Sarah  E.; 

144.     Mason,  Anali;   150.     Massey,  J.;   115.     Mathews,  J.;    54. 

Matthews,  Rebecca;    93.     Maul,  Eliza  H.;    27 ,  Sarah 

E.;   27. ,  W.  M.;    27.     Maxwell,  Annie  E.;   93 , 

C;    93 ,   J.   A.;    93 ,   Julia;    93 Mary 

E.;    93 ,    Susan    K.;    93 ,    R.    F.;    71 , 

Mrs.    R.    P.;    71.     Mays,    Dr.   J.   W.;    83.      Meagher,    Mrs.    52. 

Means,  Clar.;   38 ,  Cle.;   38 ,  W.;   38.     Medlar, 

J.  E.;    120.     Mehaffy,  C;    143 ,  Jennett;    143.     Mema- 

han,  H.;    38 ,  J.;    38 W.;    38 ,  Wm.; 

38.     Meyer,  Anna  M.;  101 ,  Mary;  101 ,  Sarah 

F.;  43.    Milbank,  Mrs.  G.;  65.    Miller,  A.;  124 ,  Annie; 

117 ,    C.    C;    130 ,   E.;    27 ,   E'ffie   J.; 

185 ,  Eliz.;   97 ,  Jessie;    146 ,  Mrs.  L.; 

114 Marg.;    57 ,    Nettie;    99 R.;    31. 

,  R.  F.;  114 ,  Sallie  E.;  99 ,  Sarah;  124. 

,  W.  A.;  163 ,  W.  O.;  114,  137.     Minnick,  W.  T.; 

58.      Minor,    J.;     59 ,    Joel;     53 ,    Mattie    E.; 

52 ,  Ruth;    59.     Missimer,   Mary;    21 ,  P.;    21. 

Mitchell,  B.  G.;    183.     Mohler,  Susan  R.;    124.     Monroe,  Mrs. 

A.    A.;     84 ,    Hettie;     47.      Montgomery,    D.    C;     15. 

,  Mrs.  E.;   47,  54 ,  Inza  R.;   186 ,  Jane;" 

15 ,  J.;   47,  55 ,  Mary;    88 ,  T.  L.;    88. 

Moore,  Alice;    106 ,  Isabella;   11 ,  Mrs.  J,  P.; 

64 ,  Martha;  64 Minerva;  138-9 ,  Mrs. 

R.  S.;  65.  Morris,  Marg.;  185 ,  Mary  J.;  85.  Mor- 
rison, S.;  96.  Morrow,  G.  W.;  149 ,  W.  D.;  149.  Mor- 
ton, Sarah;  45.  Moser,  Rosa;  124.  Moss,  Maggie;  123. 
Moyes,  J.;    118 ,   Jennie;    117.     Mullendore,   Mrs.   K.; 


248  INDEX. 

151.     Hunger,   J.   D  ;    131.     Munroe,   Ailsie   E.;    39.     Murray, 

Anna;     146 ,    Eliz.    J.;     146 ,    Jessie    J.;     146. 

,  L.;   146 ,  Mary;   146 ,  Minnie  M.;   183. 

,   W.;    25.      Murray,   M.   Ann;    93.     Musser,   Hattie  B.; 

123.      Myers,   Dr.   J.   L.;    90,    183 ,   Mary;    90.      Mylar, 

J.;   45 Mrs.  M.  A.;   97. 

Nash,  Anna;  23.     Nathan,  40.     Neal,  Carrie;   150 t, 

Mary  H.;    150.     Neiderhouser,  Mary;    134.     Neville,  Eliz  ;    23. 

Newlee,    Clara;     125.      Newman,    J.;    93 ,    J.    H.;    57. 

,  R.  W.;  184.    Mckell,  Harriet;   99.     Nigh,  Mrs.  E.;   126. 

Norris,  Mrs-.  H.  R.;   136 ,  Luella;   130.     Norton,  Eliz., 

23 ,  Sarah;  23.    Norval,  Josie;  146. 

Oakes,  Laura  D;.  183.     Ogden,  J.  C;   117 ,  Julia; 

117 ,   Kate;    117.      Oppliger,   Mary   T.;    124.     O'Riley, 

Mrs.;  87.  Osborne,  Mr.;  152.  Ostermeier,  Sophia;  185.  Os- 
trander,  Mrs.  J.  B.;  65.  Ousley,  Caroline;  52 ,  Mar- 
tha;   52 ,  W.;    52.     Outcult,  B.;    64 ,  Isabelie; 

64 ,   Mrs.;    64 G.   W.;    64.     Owen,   Cora   M.; 

92,  186 ,  Eliza  C;   23 ,  M.  N.;    29. 

Painick,    A.;    34 ,    Mary;    34.      Palmer,   Anna   B.; 

185 ,  Mrs.  C.  E.;    82 ,  J.;    109 ,  L.  R.; 

138,   140 ,   Martha;    109 ,   Mary;    109 , 

Mary  M.;   185      " ,  Polly;   109.     Park,  S.  G.;   101.     Parrot, 

Sarah;   24.     Parsons,  Mr.;   35 ,  Harriet;    34.     Patrick, 

J.  W.;  115.-  Patterson,  J.;  117.  Pattison,  Mary  M.;  188.  Pat- 
ton,  Belinda;   21 ,  Frances  T.;   57 ,  H.  L.  W.; 

21 ,  I.  A.;  22 ,  Isabella;  21 ,  J.  H.;  21. 

,    J.;    29 ,    Luella;     57 ,    Mary    J.;    109. 

,  Nancy;  54 ,  Phebe;  109 ,  Sarah  A.  M.; 

21 ,  W.;    109 ,  Vv^.  R.;    149.     Pence,  Jane;    84. 

Perry,  E'.  B. ;  77 ,  Eliz. ;  77 ,  G.  B. ;  77 , 

H.    A.;    77 ,    S.    H.;    77 ,    W.    C;    77.      Peter, 

Jane;  43.  Petree,  S.  F.;  154.  Pettus,  Mrs.  L.  C;  136.  Phil- 
lips, Esther;  114 ,  H.  S.;  185 ,I.;114.  Pinker- 
ton,  Lucy  A.;  64.  Pipkin,  Mary  F.;  146  Pitney,  Louise;  126 
Poage,  Mrs.  S.  D.  B.;    61.     Pogue,  G.  A.;    99.     Pollock,  Elsie 

M.;    184 ,  Nellie  M.;    186.     Pontius,  Tina;    57.     Pope, 

Mrs.  D.  A.;  130.  Porter,  W.  L.;  188.  Postel,  Laura;  33. 
Postlewaite,  Mrs.  J.  A.;    108.     Prather,  Mrs.;    54,  87.     Piatt, 

T.  S.;  7.     Prentice,  G.  D.;  186.    Price,  C;  62 J.;  149. 

,  Mary  C;   30,  31.     ,  R.  A.;    62.     Pringle,  R.;    98. 

•Prugli,  Elsie  M.;    185.     Pryor,  Mayme;    183 ,  Minnie; 

121 ,  Ulna;    186.     Pugh,  J.  H.;    59.     Pumphrey,  J.  H.; 

131 ,    Nellie;     131.      Purviance,    W.    C;    185 , 

W.  H.;   87.     Pyne,  Julia;    56.     Mary,  56. 

Quick,  S.;  79. 

Randolph,  Mrs.;    102-3.     Rankin,  D.;    188 ,  Ellen; 

137 ,  J.;    137 ,  Laura;    137 ,  Lou;    137. 


INDEX.  249 

Rannals,  Miss;     86.     Rannels,  Harriet;     57 ,  Malissa, 

J.;    44.     Raplee,  iMrs.  L.  A.;    116.     Rasmus,  Belle;    130.     Ray, 

Eliz.;     15.      .......   G.;     15.     Reed,  Agnes   L.;     185 , 

Alice  I.;    186 ,  Eliz.;    75."    ,  Mrs.  J.;    20.     , 

J.;     75 ,  R.;     75.     Reeve,  Jane  E.;     33.     Reid,  J.  A.; 

102.     Reish,  Anna  E.;    82 ,  J.;    82.     Rhea,  A.  E.;    66. 

,  Eliz.;    64 ,  M.;    69 ,  W.;    64.     Rhoads, 

Cora    J.;     123 ,    Eva    E.;     123.      Rhodes,    Cora;     93. 

,  Mary  A.;     93 ,  W.  A.;    93.     Richards,  Alice; 

186 Clara;  115 ,  Eliz.;  115 ,  Laur- 
etta; 115-6.  Richardson,  Mary;  105.  Richmond,  J.  M.; 
115.     Ridings,  A.  W.;    163.     Riffe,  J.  H.;    111.     Riggle,  Jane; 

146.      Riggs,    Caroline;     123 ,    Lillie;      123 , 

Mary  A.;     106.     Riley,  Hallie;     184 J.;    39 , 

Marg.;      39.       ...-...,     Mary;      25.      Roberts,    H.     M.;      184. 

J. ;     27 ,    Pansy   G. ;     184 ,    Priscilla; 

27 ,  Mrs.  T.  D.;    20.     Robertson,  Janet;    95 , 

Rachel;      61.      Robidoux,    J.;      33.      Robinson,    Ann    E.;      55. 

,    Dorcas    M.;     1S4.      .. ,    Emily*  P.;     124 , 

H.  E.;     142 ,  Laura  P.;     124 ,  Mary  M.;     143. 

,    Nina;     183 ,    Mrs.;     152 ,    W.;     59. 

Rohrer,  Amanda;     52 ,  U.;     52.     Romig,  C.  F.;     186. 

Ross,   Mrs.  A.  B.;     122 ,   G.   T.;     122 ,  J.   R.; 

147 ,  Nancy  J.;  85-6.  Ruby,  Magdalena;  109.  Run- 
quest,  Amanda  A.;  185.  Rupert,  Mary  J.;  124.  Russel, 
Eliz.  M.;    78.     Russell,  Mary  S.;     20. 

Sackman,   R.   D.;     118.     Salsbury,   Rebecca;     78.     Samp- 
son,   G.    W.;     57.      Samuel,    Ellen    K.;     64 ,    W.   C; 

63.      Sawcemian,    J.    A.;    148.      Schaum,    Mrs.;     107 , 

Mrs.    B.;     107.      Schoepfer,    O.;      124.      Schoolfield,    C;     26. 

,   Sarah;     25.     Scott,  J.  Sr.;     101 ,   Jane;     101. 

,    Malissa;     143.      Scudder,    Hannah;     25 ,    J.; 

25.     Seip,  M.  L.;    115.     Selby,  Mrs.;    60 ,  Mrs.  A.  J.; 

60.  Self,  Mary  A.;  93.  Sellers,  E.  C;  57 ,  Vic- 
toria;     57.       Sells,     Glennie     M.;      124.       Service,     A.;      84. 

,    Mary;     84.      Sever,    Katie;     115.      Sevier,    \V.;     134. 

Shackelford,    A.;     25.      Shafer,    Charity    E.;     97 ,    P. 

M.;  97.  Sharp,  Elmira;  95.  Shaw,  Sarah;  124,  183. 
Shelton,  Laura;  126.  Shepard,  Mrs.  R.  W.;  71.  Shepper- 
son,  Emma  C;     152.     Sherwood,  Mrs.    W.  M.;     71.     Shields, 

Dr.;     75 ,   Mary;     90 ,   Nannie  B.;     90.     Shil- 

linglaw,  J.;    98.     Shimp,  F.  Frances;    186.     Shirley,  Melissa; 

126 ,  T.;     126.     Shoens,  G.  T.;     186.     Shults,  Nancy; 

81.     Siler,   C.   M.;     140.     Simpson,   C;     21 ,  J.;     156. 

,  T.;     134 ,  Mrs.  T.  C;     70.     Sims,  D.  L.;    115. 

Sinclare,  J.;    63.     Siner,  Mrs.   E.;     150.     Singleton,   Hannah; 

150 ,    Josie;     150.      Skelly,    W.;     134.      Slade,    Eliz.; 

54.      Slaughter,   Nancy;     120.     Sloan,   Anna  M.;     29.     Sloper, 

Lizzie;     148.      Smawley,    Cynthia;     68 ,    H.    C;     68. 

,    J.    J.;     68 ,    Mrs.    M.    E.;     (iS.      Smiley,    Mrs. 


250  INDEX. 

A.   R.;     65 Mrs.   C.   N.;     65 ,   Sarah   J.;     55. 

,    Nancy;      55.      Smith,    B.;     21 ,    Celia;     121. 

,  C;     109 ,  Mrs.  C;     102-3 ,  Dora;    56. 

,    Electa;      126 ,    Eliz.    J.;      137 ,    G.; 

44 ,  G.  A.;     33 ,  Hattie;     109 ,  Janet 

G.;     86 ,    Mrs.    M.;     68.      ,    Mahala    A.;     109. 

,  Mairg.;     19 ,  T.;     136 ,  Mrs.  T.;     13S. 

,    W.    P.;     137.      Snowden,    Mrs.    H.    E.;     68.      Snyder, 

Eliza;     96.      Somerville,    C.    C;     19.      Sparks,    Emma;     1-^6. 

Speaker,   Christina;     124 .,    Mary;     124 ,    W. 

H.;      124.      Speakman,    Mrs.    A.;      148.      Speer,    Marg.;      76. 

,  Nancy  D.;     76 ,  R.;     76 ,   S.   P.;     7b. 

Spilman,   E.   M.;     186.     Spivey,   Mary  C;     116.     Sprague,   A. 

N.;     129 .Laura;     129.     Stagg,  Eliz.;     77.     Standish, 

Lucinda;     64 ,   S.;     64.     Stannard,   F.   C;     115.     Sta- 

pleton,    Laura    C;     183.      Starrett,    A.;     82 ,    Anna 

E.;     82 ,  Mary  C;     82 ,  Nancy;     82 

S.;  121.  States,  J.;  122.  Stauffer,  Ethel  J.;  184.  Steph- 
ens, Mary  A.;     34 ,  Ollie  D.;     57.     Stevenson,  Lottie 

E.;  186 ,  "Nina;  114.  ,  R.  M.;  114,  Still- 
well,  W.  H.;    45.     Stockton,  Mrs.;    46 ,  Martha;     25. 

,   S.;     45 ,   W.;     25.     Stoffel,   Mr.;     44.     StofTIe, 

Mary;  101.  Stone,  Laura:  124.  Stonehocker,  S.;  138. 
Stoner,  Margie;  185.  Stout,  Vina;  130.  Street,  Sarah  G.; 
183.  Strickler,  Catherine;  100.  Stuart.  Hallie  J.;  10. 
Stump,  Ida  D.;  186.  Stumpfad,  Katie  B.;  124.  Sublette, 
Mrs.  S.  S.;  47 W.;  47-8.  Sullivan,  J.;  93.  Sum- 
mers, M.  T.;  36.  Summerville,  Mrs.  W.;  65.  Sutton,  M.; 
26.      Swartz,   C.   E.;     124 ,   Mary;     124. 

Taff,    H.;     106 ,     Louisa;     106.      Talbot,    I.    W.; 

82.       Tatlock,     Frances     M.;     144.       Taylor,     Amanda;     120. 

,    Atlanta;      82 ,    Eliz.;     57 ,    G.;      38. 

,J.;   38 ,J.  F.;   82 ,  Kate  B.;    186 

Maggie;  57 ,  Nellie  M.;    183 ,W.  S.;   58.    Teanor, 

Mary;      117.      Templeton,    Eliz.    J.;      185 ,    J.;      84. 

,  Nancy;    84.     Tennant,  G.;    119 ,  Marg.;    119. 

Terhune,  Mary  C;     27.     Tharp,   Mary  P.;     58.     Thayer,  W.; 

111.     Thompson,  Addie;     123 ,  Effie;     128-9 , 

Mrs.   G.;     128 ,  Hannah;     11 ,  J.   B.;     26,   38. 

,    Martha;     96 ,    Mary;     71 ,    M.;     27. 

,  W.  A.;    96.     Thornton,  A.  S.;    185.     Thrailkill,  Su»an 

M.;     144.     Tidrick,  R.  W.;     188.     Tilton,  R.;    140.     Tinsman, 

Flora;    103.     Tipton,  G.;     109 ,  Nancy;     309 , 

Susie;     109.     Towne,  Etta;    92 ,  H.  M.;     82 , 

Mrs.    L.;     92.     Treat,    G.    M.;     45.     Trimble,    Esther   J.;     68. 

,  J.  W.;     68.     Trussell,  Marg.;     122.     Tuck,  Jane;     82. 

Tuttle,  W.;  143.  Turnbull,  Maggie;  110.  Turner,  Amelia; 
68 ,  R.   R.;     68.     Tyler,  J.   F.;     116. 

Ulman,  A.;     138.     Underbill,  P.   M.;     23. 


INDEX.  251 

Van    Alen,    Una;     183.      Vanarsdale,    W.;     47.      Vanatta, 

Susan;     62 ,  W.;    70.     Vance,  Mrs.  L.;     120 

Mary;    106 ,  Miss  M.;    106.     Vander  Veer,  J.  S.;    85. 

,  Mrs.  S.  O.;     85-6.     Van  Horn,  Sallie  C;     93 , 

W.;     93.      Van    Vranken,    Eula;     186.      Vaughn,    F.    J.;     136. 

.,  Mary  P.;    136.     Venable,  Eliz.;    32 G.;    32. 

G.    C;     47-8 G.    H.;     32 ,    J.;     32. 

,    Mary;     32.     Venard,   Bessie;     183 ,   Dorothy 

B.;  185.  Vinsonhaler,  Sarah;  66.  Virden,  Caroline  D.; 
119 Naomi;     119 ,  W.;     119. 

Walker,   Anna;     148 ,    D.;     67 ,   Mrs.   G. 

F.;    103 ,  H.;    66.     134 ,  H.  L.;     148 

T.  H.;     88.    • ,  J.  E.;     29 ,  J.   W.;     104 

Lucy  F.;     148 ,   Magdaline;     115 ,  Mary;    32, 

134 ,   Mary  A.;     148 ,   Martha;     66 , 

Martha  A.;     104.     Walkup,    Marg.;     110 ,    Mary   F.; 

110 W.  R.;    110.     Wallace,  J.;    98.     Walline,  Esther 

v.;     184.     Wamsby,  H.;     149.     Vv'ard,  Caroline ;     52 , 

C.    W.;     52-3 ,    Eliz.;     30,    52-3 F.    D.;     52. 

,  Georgia;     123 ,  H.;    53 ,  Isabella  M.; 

185 ,  J.;  30 ,  Mrs.  M.  M.;  53 ,  Mag- 
gie; 52 ,  Marg.;  11 ,  Orphias;  52 ,R.  D.; 

53.   Warnick,  Alice;  122 ,J.;    122.  Warnock,  Clara;    153. 

,    Marg.;     153.     Waugh,    J.;     59 ,    Mary;     130. 

,   Mary   C;     99.     Wayman,   Alice  M.;     58 ,   H. 

M.;    58 ,  Marg.;    58 ..,  Rachel  C;    58.     Webb, 

Annabell;      120.      Weeden,    Edna;      8 ,    H.    J.;      8. 

Welch,  Mrs.  E.  F.;    111.    Wells,  C.  E.;    184 ,  Edythe; 

186 ,    J.    Mabel;     186 ,    Kitty;     143.     Welsh, 

Mary  A.;    93 ,  Sarah;    84.     Welton,  Jane;    25.    Went- 

worth,  — ;  24.  West,  Mrs.  R.  B.;  129.  Whaley,  Marg.; 
58.      Whidber,    Susan;      69.      Whissile,    Eva;      183.      White, 

Caroline;    85 ,  Cornelia  L.;    186 ,  Eunice  E.; 

186 ,    Harriet    N.;     117 ,    Mrs.    J.    E.;     121. 

,  J.  M.;    103 ,  Mary  C;    44 Sarah  E.; 

146.  Whitehead,  N.  H.;  68.  Whitney,  Anna  B.;  166. 
Whitson,     Sarah;      8.      Whittemore,     Ella;      183.      Whitton, 

Marg.   J.;     21.     Wilkerson,    Emma;     136 ,   W.;     136. 

Wilkinson,    Clara;     143 ,    Edith;     143 ,    Mrs. 

E.    C;     32 ,    Fannie;     32 ,    J.;     143 , 

W.;    32.     Williams,  Emma;     143 ,  J.  C;    58 , 

Sarah;     119.     Williamson,  Eliza;     85 ,   Mary  A.;     85. 

,    M.;      85. ,    W.;      85.      Wilson,    C.    A.;      188. 

,    E.   H.;     184 ,    G.;     79 ,    Harriet   M.; 

Ill ,  J.  F.;    88 ,  Marg.;    184.     .. ,  Mary; 

79,  92 ,   Myrtle;     188 Nancy;     148 

S.;  92 W.  B.;  Ill ,  Zora  M.;  184.  Win- 
chester, Hattie  A.;  85 ,  T.  P.;  85.  Wingling,  Caro- 
line;   154 ,  Rosinda;    154.     Wise,  W.  T.;    131.     Wood, 


252 


INDEX. 


J.    E.;      85.      Woods,    Mary    E.;     116 , 

Worster,   Sarah  B.;     116 ,  T.   J.;     116. 

101.     Wright,!.;     166 ,    Jeanette    H.; 

J.   B.;     129 ,   Mrs.   J.   B.;     129 


129.     Wylie,  J.  H.;    32. 
59.     Wynne,  Viola  E.; 


Wynn,  P.  N. 
186. 


W.   N.;     116. 
Wren,  I,  N.; 

183 , 

Mrs.   J.   W.; 

59 ,  Rebecca; 


Yates,   Anna;     146.     Yost,   Dinah;     124. Emma; 

124.     Young,   C;     26 ,   Emily   A.;     27 ,   Flor- 
ence A.;    183 ,  Jane;    57 Mary;    27 , 

Nancy;     88 ,  Ruth;     21. 

Ziebold,  D.  A.;    124 ,  E.  P.;    124 ,  Sarah 

E.;     124.     Zimmerman,  A.  L.;     123.     Zinsien,  C;     103. 


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